Numbers 24:21
Good News Translation
In his vision he saw the Kenites, and uttered this prophecy: "The place where you live is secure, Safe as a nest set high on a cliff,

New Revised Standard Version
Then he looked on the Kenite, and uttered his oracle, saying: “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock;

Contemporary English Version
"And this is what I saw about the Kenites: They think they're safe, living among the rocks,

New American Bible
Upon seeing the Kenites, he recited his poem: Though your dwelling is safe, and your nest is set on a cliff;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,

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He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,

the Kenite.

Genesis 10:11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

Ezra 4:2 And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither.

Psalm 83:8 Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

Hosea 14:3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
20And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. 21He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,22And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:19
The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

1 Samuel 15:6
And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

Numbers 24:20
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