Numbers 24:20 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁰ Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message: ‘Amalek was first among the nations, but their end will be utter destruction.’

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 36:12

Esau’s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.

1 Chronicles 4:43

They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

Esther 3:1

After these events, King Xerxes honoured Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honour higher than that of all the other nobles.

Esther 9:14

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled the ten sons of Haman.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.’

Exodus 17:16

He said, ‘Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.’

Exodus 17:8

The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

Numbers 24:19

A ruler will come out of Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.’

Numbers 24:24

Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus; they will subdue Ashur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin.’

Numbers 24:7

Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. ‘Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.

Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.

1 Samuel 14:48

He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of those who had plundered them.

1 Samuel 15:2

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1

David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,

1 Samuel 30:17

David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.