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Numbers 24:20

Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

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ASV

And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.

KJV

And 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 for ever.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּרְא֙vai.yaR'and he sawH7200 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
עֲמָלֵ֔ק'a.ma.LekAmalekH6002 →
וַיִּשָּׂ֥אvai.yi.Sa'and he lifted upH5375 →
מְשָׁל֖וֹme.sha.Looracle hisH4912 →
וַיֹּאמַ֑רvai.yo.Marand he saidH559 →
רֵאשִׁ֤יתre.Shit[was the] first ofH7225 →
גּוֹיִם֙go.Yim[the] nationsH1471 →
עֲמָלֵ֔ק'a.ma.LekAmalekH6002 →
וְאַחֲרִית֖וֹve.'a.cha.ri.Toand end itsH319 →
עֲדֵ֥י'a.Dei[will be] toH5704 →
אֹבֵֽד׃'o.VeddestructionH8 →

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1 Samuel 15:2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.2 Peter 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.1 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”Exodus 17:8After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.Numbers 24:24Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,1 Samuel 14:48He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.Exodus 17:16“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”1 Samuel 27:8–9Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.1 Samuel 15:3–8Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”Esther 7:9–10Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.1 Chronicles 4:43and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.Esther 9:14So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.Esther 3:1After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.

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