Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim;
they will afflict Asshur and Eber,
but they too will come to destruction.

New American Standard Bible

“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,
And they shall afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber;
So they also will come to destruction.”

King James Version

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

International Standard Version

Ships under control of Kittim will devastate Asshur and Eber, until they are permanently destroyed."

A Conservative Version

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.

American Standard Version

But ships'shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.

Amplified


“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,
And shall afflict Asshur (Assyria) and Eber;
So they (the victors) also will come to destruction.”

Bible in Basic English

But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

Darby Translation

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Asshur, and afflict Eber, and he also shall be for destruction.

Julia Smith Translation

And ships from the hand of the Cyprians, and they afflicted Assyria, and they afflicted Heber, and he also perished forever.

King James 2000

And ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The ships [will come] from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he [will be] forever ruin."

Modern King James verseion

And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and shall afflict Assyria and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ships shall come out of the coast of Kittim and subdue Assyria and subdue Eber, and he himself shall perish at the last."

NET Bible

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he will also perish forever."

New Heart English Bible

But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."

The Emphasized Bible

When, ships, come from the coast of the isles, And humble Assyria, and humble the Hebrew, - And he too, is even to perish?

Webster

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

World English Bible

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."

Youngs Literal Translation

And -- ships are from the side of Chittim, And they have humbled Asshur, And they have humbled Eber, And it also for ever is perishing.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And ships
צי 
Tsiy 
Usage: 4

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

of Chittim
כּתּיּי כּתּי 
Kittiy 
Usage: 8

ענה 
`anah 
ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 83
Usage: 83

אשּׁר אשּׁוּר 
'Ashshuwr 
Usage: 152

עבר 
`Eber 
Usage: 15

and he also shall perish
H8
אבד 
'obed 
Usage: 2

Context Readings

Balaam Continues To Utter Oracles

23 Once more he proclaimed his poem:

Ah, who can live when God does this?
24 Ships will come from the coast of Kittim;
they will afflict Asshur and Eber,
but they too will come to destruction.
25 Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.



Cross References

Genesis 10:4

And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Numbers 24:20

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:

Amalek was first among the nations,
but his future is destruction.

Daniel 11:30

Ships of Kittim will come against him, and being intimidated, he will withdraw. Then he will rage against the holy covenant and take action. On his return, he will favor those who abandon the holy covenant.

Genesis 10:21-25

And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 14:13

One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.

Isaiah 23:1

An oracle against Tyre:

Wail, ships of Tarshish,
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Daniel 2:35

Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:45

You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it, and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation certain.”

Daniel 7:19-20

“Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, the one different from all the others, extremely terrifying, with iron teeth and bronze claws, devouring, crushing, and trampling with its feet whatever was left.

Daniel 7:23-26

“This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms. It will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

Daniel 8:5-8

As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

Daniel 8:21

The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king.

Daniel 9:26-27

After those 62 weeks
the Messiah will be cut off
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end will come with a flood,
and until the end there will be war;
desolations are decreed.

Daniel 10:20

He said, “Do you know why I’ve come to you? I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I leave, the prince of Greece will come.

Daniel 11:45

He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, but he will meet his end with no one to help him.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),

Luke 20:24

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

Luke 23:29-31

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

John 11:48

If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”

Revelation 18:2-24

He cried in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,
Babylon the Great has fallen!
She has become a dwelling for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.

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