Numbers 24:20 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁰ Then he looked on Amalek, and uttered his oracle, saying: “First among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish forever.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ [Balaam] looked at Amalek and took up his [prophetic] utterance, and said: Amalek is the foremost of the [neighboring] nations, but in his latter end he shall come to destruction.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ He looked at Amalek and raised his voice and gave his address: “Amalek is foremost among the nations, but its end is to perish forever.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And when he saw Amalek, taking up his parable, he said: "Amalek, first among the Gentiles, whose very end shall be perdition."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec, the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

Numbers 24:20 Cross References

Genesis 36:12

(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

1 Chronicles 4:43

they destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites that had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

Esther 3:1

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the officials who were with him.

Esther 9:14

So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a reminder in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

Exodus 17:16

He said, “A hand upon the banner of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

Exodus 17:8

Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

Numbers 24:19

One out of Jacob shall rule, and destroy the survivors of Ir.”

Numbers 24:24

But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall perish forever.”

Numbers 24:7

Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall have abundant water, his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.

1 Samuel 14:48

He did valiantly, and struck down the Amalekites, and rescued Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

1 Samuel 15:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1

Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negeb and on Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag, burned it down,

1 Samuel 30:17

David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.