Numbers 24:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ 5 And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.

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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

3 And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau.

1 Chronicles 4:43

Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his son,

Esther 3:1

And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

Esther 9:14

9 But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats.

Exodus 17:14

And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt,

Exodus 17:16

And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam, his father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country.

Exodus 17:8

1 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.

Numbers 24:19

4 They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

Numbers 24:24

Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

Numbers 24:7

2 Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, whom thou sentest to me:

Judges 6:3

And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage,

1 Samuel 14:48

And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his People Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord:

1 Samuel 15:2

And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1

And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons, and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.

1 Samuel 30:17

2 Then all the wicked and unjust men that had gone with David answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take his wife and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way.