Numbers 24:20

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Numbers 24:20

Balaam looked at Amalek and took up his [fifth] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Amalek was the first of the [neighboring] nations [to oppose the Israelites after they left Egypt],
But his end shall be destruction.”

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in the book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven.”

Exodus 17:8

Then Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

Exodus 17:16

saying, “The Lord has sworn [an oath]; the Lord will have war against [the people of] Amalek from generation to generation.”

Judges 6:3

For it was whenever Israel had sown [their seed] that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and go up against them.

1 Samuel 14:48

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

1 Samuel 15:3-8

Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 27:8-9

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites [the enemies of Israel that Joshua had failed to annihilate]; for they had inhabited the land from ancient times, as one comes to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1

Now it happened when David and his men came [home] to Ziklag on the third day, [they found] that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev (the South country) and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;

1 Samuel 30:17

Then David [and his men] struck them down [in battle] from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode camels and fled.

1 Chronicles 4:43

They destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and they have lived there to this day (the date of this writing).

Esther 3:1

After these things King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the officials who were with him.

Esther 7:9-10

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs serving the king said, “Now look, there are gallows fifty cubits (75 ft.) high standing at Haman’s house, which Haman made for Mordecai, whose good warning saved the king.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

Esther 9:14

So the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Susa, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman’s ten sons.

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Summary

Numbers 24:20

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.

The first of the nations

Exodus 17:8

His latter end

Shall be that he perish for ever

Exodus 17:14

1 Samuel 15:3

General references

Exodus 17:8

Deuteronomy 25:17

Bible References

The first of the nations

Then Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

His latter end

For it was whenever Israel had sown [their seed] that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and go up against them.

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

Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

They destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and they have lived there to this day (the date of this writing).

After these things King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the officials who were with him.

So the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Susa, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman’s ten sons.

Shall be that he perish for ever

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in the book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven.”

Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

General references

Then Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

“Remember what Amalek did to you along the road when you came from Egypt,