Numbers 24:20

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Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his oracle: 'Amalek was first among the nations, but their end will be utter destruction.'

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  • Exod 17:14 : 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua: 'I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.'"
  • Exod 17:16 : 16 He said, "Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the LORD, the LORD will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation."
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up and attack them.
  • 1 Sam 14:48 : 48 He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of those who had plundered them.
  • 1 Sam 15:3-8 : 3 Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.' 4 Saul summoned the people and mustered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. 5 Saul advanced to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the valley. 6 Saul said to the Kenites, 'Go, depart, leave the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you along with them. For you showed kindness to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.' So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. 8 He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but he utterly destroyed all the people with the sword.
  • 1 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land from ancient times, from the route to Shur as far as the land of Egypt. 9 David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.
  • 1 Sam 30:1 : 1 On the third day, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had invaded the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it to the ground.
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
  • 1 Chr 4:43 : 43 They struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these events, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and setting his position above all the officials who were with him.
  • Esth 7:9-9 : 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, "Look! The gallows that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke up for the king’s benefit, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits tall." The king said, "Hang him on it!" 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
  • Esth 9:14 : 14 So the king commanded that it be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
  • Exod 17:8 : 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'I will punish Amalek for what they did to Israel, how they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.'

    3Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt,

    18how he met you on the road, attacked all who were lagging behind you when you were tired and weary, and he did not fear God.

    19Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you in the land He is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

  • Num 24:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his oracle: 'Your dwelling is secure, your nest is set in the rock.'

    22Yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.

    23Then he spoke his oracle: 'Alas! Who can survive when God does this?'

  • Num 24:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob, a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the sons of Sheth.

    18Edom will become a possession; Seir, his enemy, will also be a possession. But Israel will grow strong.

    19A ruler will come out of Jacob and will destroy the survivors of the city.

  • Exod 17:16
    75%

    16He said, "Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the LORD, the LORD will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation."

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    73%

    43They struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    73%

    18And the LORD sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and utterly destroy the sinful Amalekites; wage war against them until you completely wipe them out.'

  • 1 Sam 15:5-9
    5 verses
    72%

    5Saul advanced to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the valley.

    6Saul said to the Kenites, 'Go, depart, leave the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you along with them. For you showed kindness to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.' So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

    7Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

    8He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but he utterly destroyed all the people with the sword.

    9Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, cattle, fatlings, and lambs, and all that was good. They refused to utterly destroy them, but everything despised and worthless, they completely destroyed.

  • Exod 17:8
    72%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.

    14Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua: 'I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.'"

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    71%

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    70%

    48He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of those who had plundered them.

  • Gen 14:7
    69%

    7Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazezon-Tamar.

  • Exod 17:11
    69%

    11As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered his hands, Amalek prevailed.

  • 2 Chr 20:23
    69%

    23The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    68%

    15Saul answered, 'They brought them from the Amalekites; the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

  • 1 Sam 15:32
    67%

    32Then Samuel said, 'Bring Agag, king of Amalek, to me.' Agag came to him cheerfully, thinking, 'Surely the bitterness of death is past.'

  • Num 14:43
    67%

    43For the Amalekites and Canaanites are there to confront you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.

  • Num 14:45
    67%

    45Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.

  • Judg 6:3
    67%

    3Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up and attack them.

  • Ps 9:6
    67%

    6You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have erased their name forever and ever.

  • Num 23:9
    66%

    9For from the top of the rocks I see them, from the hills I behold them; they are a people who live apart and do not consider themselves among the nations.

  • 1 Sam 15:20
    66%

    20But Saul said to Samuel, 'I did obey the LORD. I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I brought back Agag, the king of Amalek, and I utterly destroyed the Amalekites.'

  • Lev 26:38
    66%

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Ps 52:5
    66%

    5You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

  • Deut 2:22
    66%

    22The LORD did the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when He destroyed the Horites before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

  • Ps 10:16
    66%

    16The Lord is King forever and ever; the nations have perished from His land.

  • 2 Sam 1:8-9
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    66%

    8He asked me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'

    9He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for I am in agony and my life still lingers in me.'

  • Nah 1:9
    66%

    9Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will bring it to an end; trouble will not come a second time.

  • Deut 31:4
    66%

    4And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he destroyed.

  • Num 14:25
    65%

    25The Amalekites and Canaanites are dwelling in the valley. Tomorrow, turn around and set out toward the wilderness along the way of the Red Sea.

  • 2 Sam 22:38
    65%

    38I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and I did not turn back until they were consumed.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    65%

    13May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand will not be against you.