Timna was concubine to Elifaz, Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz `Amalek. These are the sons of `Adah, Esav's wife.
Numbers 24:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He looked at `Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, `Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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 And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec, the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. |
Timna was concubine to Elifaz, Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz `Amalek. These are the sons of `Adah, Esav's wife.
They struck the remnant of the `Amaleki who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
After these things King Achashverosh promoted Haman the son of Hammedata the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
The LORD said to Moshe, *Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of `Amalek from under the sky.*
He said, *The LORD has sworn: 'The LORD will have war with `Amalek from generation to generation.'*
Out of Ya`akov shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.
But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict `Ever. He also shall come to destruction.
Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.
So it was, when Yisra'el had sown, that the Midyanim came up, and the `Amaleki, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
He did valiantly, and struck the `Amaleki, and delivered Yisra'el out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
Thus says the LORD of Armies, I have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra'el, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
It happened, when David and his men were come to Tziklag on the third day, that the `Amaleki had made a raid on the South, and on Tziklag, and had struck Tziklag, and burned it with fire,
David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.