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21 Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said:
“Firm is your dwelling place,
And your nest is set in the rock;
22 Nevertheless Kain shall be burned.
How long until Asshur carries you away captive?”
23 Then he took up his oracle and said:
“Alas! Who shall live when God does this?
24 But ships shall come from the coasts of aCyprus,
And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict bEber,
And so shall1 Amalek, until he perishes.”  
25 So Balaam rose and departed and areturned to his place; Balak also went his way. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Numbers 24:23

Who shall live when God doeth this! - There are two senses in which these words may be taken: -

1.That the event is so distant that none then alive could possibly live to see it.

2.That the times would be so distressing and desolating that scarcely any should be able to escape.

The words are very similar to those of our Lord, and probably are to be taken in the same sense: "Wo to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days."


 
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