Numbers 24:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 forever.

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  • Exod 17:14 : 14 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
  • Exod 17:16 : 16 For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
  • 1 Sam 14:48 : 48 He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.
  • 1 Sam 15:3-8 : 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley. 6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 And David and his men went up and invaded the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land from long ago, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. 9 And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.
  • 1 Sam 30:1 : 1 And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and none of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.
  • 1 Chr 4:43 : 43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and dwelt there to this day.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these things, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
  • Esth 7:9-9 : 9 And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on it. 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided.
  • Esth 9:14 : 14 And the king commanded it to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
  • Exod 17:8 : 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Thus says the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.

  • Num 24:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling place, and you put your nest in a rock.

    22Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

    23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!

  • Num 24:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

    18And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

    19Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him who remains of the city.

  • Exod 17:16
    75%

    16For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    73%

    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and dwelt there to this day.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    73%

    18And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

  • 1 Sam 15:5-9
    5 verses
    72%

    5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.

    6And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

    7And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

    9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

  • Exod 17:8
    72%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

    14And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    71%

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    70%

    48He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.

  • Gen 14:7
    69%

    7And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelled in Hazezontamar.

  • Exod 17:11
    69%

    11And it happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

  • 2 Chr 20:23
    69%

    23For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    68%

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 15:32
    67%

    32Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately, and Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

  • Num 14:43
    67%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • Num 14:45
    67%

    45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill, and struck them, and beat them down, even to Hormah.

  • Judg 6:3
    67%

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

  • Ps 9:6
    67%

    6O enemy, destructions are finished forever; and you have destroyed cities; their memory has perished with them.

  • Num 23:9
    66%

    9For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him; behold, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • 1 Sam 15:20
    66%

    20And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

  • Lev 26:38
    66%

    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • Ps 52:5
    66%

    5God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Deut 2:22
    66%

    22As He did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them and dwelt in their place even unto this day.

  • Ps 10:16
    66%

    16The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations have perished out of His land.

  • 2 Sam 1:8-9
    2 verses
    66%

    8And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

    9He said to me again, Stand, please, upon me, and kill me: for anguish has come upon me, because my life is still in me.

  • Nah 1:9
    66%

    9What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up a second time.

  • Deut 31:4
    66%

    4And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

  • Num 14:25
    65%

    25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

  • 2 Sam 22:38
    65%

    38I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    65%

    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.