◄ Numbers 24:24 ►
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Good News Translation
Invaders will sail from Cyprus; They will conquer Assyria and Eber, But they, in turn, will perish forever."

New Revised Standard Version
But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall perish forever.”

Contemporary English Version
Ships will come from Cyprus, bringing people who will invade the lands of Assyria and Eber. But finally, Cyprus itself will be ruined."

New American Bible
to deliver them from the hands of the Kittim? When they have conquered Asshur and conquered Eber, They too shall perish forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

Numbers 24:11 Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.

Numbers 31:8 And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
…23And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things? 24They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.25And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:21
Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

Numbers 24:20
And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

Numbers 24:23
And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

Ezekiel 27:6
They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

Daniel 11:30
And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.

Numbers 24:23
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