And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
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Gill's Exposition
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted,.... Though they were so strongly fortified, and closely immured and surrounded with rocks and mountains, yet they should gradually waste away, as they were but…
Barnes' Notes
The Kenites - First mentioned Gen 15:19 as one of the tribes whose territory was promised to Abraham. In Jdg 1:16, where we read of them as moving with the children of Judah, to establish themselves…
The office of prophets was both to bless and to prophesy in the name of the Lord. Balaam, as a prophet, per force had blessed Israel; here he foretels future events.
I. His preface is much the same as…
Cambridge Bible
The utterance on the Kenites.
And he saw the Kenite The singular adjective stands for the whole tribe; cf. 1Sa 15:6; 1Sa 30:29 (Heb.). In the next verse the tribe is called by the name of its reputed…