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Numbers 24:21
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Numbers 24:21
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Balaam’s Sixth Message
21 Then he saw the Kenites(A) and spoke his message:
“Your dwelling place is secure,(B)
your nest is set in a rock;
Numbers 24:21
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Numbers 24:21
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21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
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Judges 1:16
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Judges 1:16
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16 The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law,(A) the Kenite,(B) went up from the City of Palms[a](C) with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.(D)
Footnotes
- Judges 1:16 That is, Jericho
Judges 1:16
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Judges 1:16
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16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
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Judges 4:11
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Judges 4:11
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11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites,(A) the descendants of Hobab,(B) Moses’ brother-in-law,[a] and pitched his tent by the great tree(C) in Zaanannim(D) near Kedesh.
Footnotes
- Judges 4:11 Or father-in-law
Judges 4:11
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Judges 4:11
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11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
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Judges 4:17
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Judges 4:17
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17 Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael,(A) the wife of Heber the Kenite,(B) because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor(C) and the family of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 4:17
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Judges 4:17
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17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Judges 5:24
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Judges 5:24
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Judges 5:24
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Judges 5:24
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24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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1 Samuel 15:6
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1 Samuel 15:6
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6 Then he said to the Kenites,(A) “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:6
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1 Samuel 15:6
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6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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1 Samuel 27:10
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1 Samuel 27:10
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10 When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel(A)” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.(B)”
1 Samuel 27:10
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1 Samuel 27:10
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10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
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1 Samuel 30:29
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1 Samuel 30:29
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1 Samuel 30:29
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1 Samuel 30:29
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29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
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1 Chronicles 2:55
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1 Chronicles 2:55
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Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or of the Sopherites
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or father of Beth Rekab
1 Chronicles 2:55
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1 Chronicles 2:55
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55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
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