Numbers 24:22 (BSB)
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
From Numbers 24. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 24:22
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 24:22: 22. Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. It is a harsh and unnatural construction to apply this to the Kenites; and the majority, indeed, consent that it should be referred to the Israelites; yet they differ as to the meaning of it, for some take it affirmatively, that the Kenites should be wasted, until the Assyrians should conquer the Israelites and carry them away...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 24:15-25: The office of prophets was both to bless and to prophesy in the name of the Lord. Balaam, as a prophet, per force had blessed Israel; here he foretels future events. I. His preface is much the same as that, Num 24:3, Num 24:4. He personates a true prophet admirably well, God permitting and directing him to do so, because, whatever he was, the prophecy itself was a true prophecy.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 24:22: And he took up his parable, and said,.... Or delivered another prophecy, having made some little pause: alas, who shall live when God doeth this? referring not to what goes before, but to what follows; though Jarchi and Aben Ezra think it refers to the Assyria conquering and carrying captive, not only the Kenites, but all the nations of the world, so that there was...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 24:21-22: Num 24:21-22 The third saying relates to the Kenites, whose origin is involved in obscurity (see at Gen 15:19), as there are no other Kenites mentioned in the whole of the Old Testament, with the exception of Gen 15:19, than the Kenites who went to Canaan with Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses (Num 10:29.: see Jdg 1:16; Jdg 4:11; 1Sa 15:6; 1Sa 27:10; 1Sa 30:29)...