Numbers 24:21

World English Bible (2000)

He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:19 : 19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
  • Judg 1:16 : 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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  • Num 24:22-23
    2 verses
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    22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive."

    23 He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?

  • 20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

  • Job 39:27-28
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    71%

    27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

    28 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

  • 16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

  • 19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

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    21 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

    22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

  • 6 Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go 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.

  • 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

  • 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

  • 16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

  • 6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

  • 28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

  • 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Job 28:7-9
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    67%

    7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

    8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

    9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

  • 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

  • 16 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

    4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.

  • 10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."

  • 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

  • 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."

  • 29 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

  • 17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

  • 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • 13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

  • 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

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

  • 5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!

  • 21 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

  • 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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

  • 24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • 15 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

  • 23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

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

  • 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

  • 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

  • 27 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, 'Destroy!'

  • 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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    10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

    11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

  • 18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.