Numbers 24:20
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
19And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the city.
Cross References
Exodus 17:8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exodus 17:16and he said, The LORD hath sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
1 Samuel 14:48And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
1 Samuel 27:8And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, which were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 30:17And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels and fled.
Esther 3:1After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 24:16-25
Balaam's Prophecy. ( b. c. 1452.) 15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and… Read the whole commentary →