Numbers 24:24 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 24:24

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

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ASV

But shipsshall comefrom the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.

WEB

Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

YLT

And--ships are from the side of Chittim, And they have humbled Asshur, And they have humbled Eber, And it also for ever is perishing.'

DBT

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Asshur, and afflict Eber, and he also shall be for destruction.

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Daniel 11:30
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
Daniel 10:20
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Genesis 10:21–25
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Numbers 24:20
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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The Assyrians were themselves to be overthrown--first, by the Greeks under Alexander the Great and his successors; secondly, by the Romans. Eber--the posterity of the Hebrews (Ge 10:24). he also shall perish--that is, the conqueror of Asher and Eber, namely, the Greek and Roman empires.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Eber - The posterity of Eber, the Hebrew, who were the chief and flower of Eber's children. He also - Not the Hebrew: they shall have a better end; all Israel shall be saved; but the afflicter or scourge of Ashur and Eber, namely, the Grecian and Roman empire.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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NUM 24:24DAN 11:30 ISA 23:12
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NUM 24:24DAN 11:30 GEN 10:4
NUM 24:24NUM 24:20 EXO 17:14
NUM 24:24DAN 10:20 DAN 8:21
NUM 24:24DAN 11:30 DAN 11:28
NUM 24:24DAN 11:30 JER 2:10
NUM 24:24GEN 10:4 ISA 23:1
NUM 24:24DAN 10:20 DAN 11:2-4

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