Numbers 24:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle:“Your dwelling place seems strong, and your nest is set on a rocky cliff.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:19 : 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
  • Judg 1:16 : 16 Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of date palm trees to Arad in the wilderness of Judah, located in the Negev. They went and lived with the people of Judah.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

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  • Num 24:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

    22Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. How long will Asshur take you away captive?”

    23Then he uttered this oracle:“O, who will survive when God does this!

  • 20Balaam’s Final Prophecies Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle:“Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish.”

  • Job 39:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

    28It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.

  • 16The terror you inspire in others and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you. You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks; you may occupy the highest places in the hills. But even if you made your home where the eagles nest, I would bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

  • 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

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    21The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

    22When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by.

  • 6Saul said to the Kenites,“Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

  • 11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

  • 26rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;

  • 16This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.

  • 6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • 28Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine.

  • 9For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Job 28:7-9
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    67%

    7a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.

    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • 13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • 16Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of date palm trees to Arad in the wilderness of Judah, located in the Negev. They went and lived with the people of Judah.

  • 16‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3Your presumptuous heart has deceived you– you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, whose home is high in the mountains. You think to yourself,‘No one can bring me down to the ground!’

    4Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the LORD.

  • 10When Achish would ask,“Where did you raid today?” David would say,“The Negev of Judah” or“The Negev of Jeharmeel” or“The Negev of the Kenites.”

  • 2The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

  • 9They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’”

  • 29and Racal; for those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;

  • 17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • 18The wild goats live in the high mountains; the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.

  • 28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • 13It’s like the old proverb says:‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

  • 5He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.

  • 29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

  • 31For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

  • 5‘How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel!

  • 21The LORD deserves praise for he demonstrated his amazing faithfulness to me when I was besieged by enemies.

  • 18Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

  • 24The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

  • 24Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”

  • 15with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

  • 23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • 40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • 7I saw the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian were shaking.

  • 17Treatment of the Amalekites Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

  • 27The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said,“Destroy!”

  • 9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

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    10The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

    11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the LORD spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

  • 18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.