Numbers 24:22
And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et fueris electus de stirpe Cin, quamdiu poteris permanere ? Assur enim capiet te.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐὰν γένηται τῷ Βεὼρ νεοσσιὰ πανουργίας, Ἀσσύριοί σε αἰχμαλωτεύσουσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֥י אִם יִהְיֶ֖ה לְבָ֣עֵֽר קָ֑יִן עַד מָ֖ה אַשּׁ֥וּר תִּשְׁבֶּֽךָּ
Haydock's commentary
Captive. The Samaritan insinuates that they should return, 1 Paralipomenon ii. 55. "Though thy nest should be entirely consumed, thy inhabitants shall return out of Assyria." (Calmet)
Septuagint, "If to Beor (the capital) there should be nests of iniquity, the Assyrians will reduce thee to captivity." Hebrew, "Yet the Cinite shall be wasted, till," &c. (Haydock)
The family of Jethro was now among the Hebrews, and their posterity were suffered to dwell with the tribe of Juda. Abor afterwards removed into the tribe of Nephthali, and was led away by Salmanasar, 4 Kings xvii. (Menochius)
Some of the Cinites were mixed with the Amalecites, 1 Kings xv. 6. The Assyrians infested the neighbouring nations, as well as the Hebrews, under Sennacherib and Nabuchodonosor, as the prophets inform us. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.