Numbers 24:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling place, and you put your nest in a rock.

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  • Gen 15:19 : 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
  • Judg 1:16 : 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 24:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

    22Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

    23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!

  • Num 24:20
    75%

    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.

  • Job 39:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make its nest on high?

    28It dwells on the rock and resides on the crag of the rock, in the stronghold.

  • Jer 49:16
    70%

    16Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

  • Gen 15:19
    70%

    19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

  • Exod 33:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand upon a rock:

    22And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by:

  • 1 Sam 15:6
    69%

    6And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

  • Judg 4:11
    68%

    11Now Heber the Kenite, of the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanaim, which is near Kedesh.

  • Prov 30:26
    68%

    26The rock badgers are a feeble folk, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

  • Isa 33:16
    68%

    16He will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given to him; his water will be sure.

  • Job 30:6
    68%

    6To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

  • Jer 48:28
    68%

    28You who dwell in Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the holes' mouth.

  • Num 23:9
    68%

    9For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him; behold, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Job 28:7-9
    3 verses
    67%

    7There is a path that no bird knows, and the vulture's eye has not seen:

    8The lion's cubs have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

    9He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • Deut 32:13
    67%

    13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

  • Judg 1:16
    67%

    16And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

  • Isa 22:16
    67%

    16What have you here? And whom have you here, that you have hewn a sepulcher here, as he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, who carves a dwelling for himself in a rock?

  • Obad 1:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high; who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

    4Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 27:10
    66%

    10And Achish said, Where have you made a raid today? And David said, Against the south of Judah, against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

  • Judg 6:2
    66%

    2And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds.

  • Num 24:9
    66%

    9He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like a great lion; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

  • 1 Sam 30:29
    66%

    29And to them who were in Rachal, and to them who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them who were in the cities of the Kenites,

  • Job 8:17
    66%

    17His roots are wrapped around the heap, and sees the place of stones.

  • Ps 104:18
    66%

    18The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

  • Job 15:28
    65%

    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    65%

    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • Ps 27:5
    65%

    5For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

  • Num 13:29
    65%

    29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.

  • Deut 32:31
    65%

    31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

  • Num 24:5
    65%

    5How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!

  • Ps 31:21
    65%

    21Blessed be the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

  • Job 29:18
    65%

    18Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.'

  • Judg 5:24
    65%

    24Blessed above women shall Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

  • Num 23:24
    65%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift himself up like a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

  • Deut 33:15
    65%

    15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

  • Job 24:23
    64%

    23Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

  • Job 38:40
    64%

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Hab 3:7
    64%

    7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

  • Deut 25:17
    64%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;

  • Deut 33:27
    64%

    27The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall drive out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.

  • Hab 2:9
    64%

    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Deut 32:10-11
    2 verses
    64%

    10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

    11As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:

  • Job 27:18
    64%

    18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.