Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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Gill's Exposition
And he took up his parable, and said,.... Or delivered another prophecy, having made some little pause:
alas, who shall live when God doeth this? referring not to what goes before, but to what…
Barnes' Notes
Render, For Kain shall surely not be destroyed (literally “be for destruction”) until Asshur, etc. The words are not, as they appear in the King James Version, a prediction of evil to the Kenites, but…
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
Until Asshur&c. The Heb. can only be translated as in R.V. marg., -How long? Asshur shall &c." The words for -how long" (-ad mâh) may be a corruption of the name of some place in the east; -unto shall…
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