Numbers 24:23-25

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²³Then Balaam said this:

“No one can live when God does this.
²⁴ Ships will come from Cyprus.^[a]
They will defeat Assyria and Eber,^[b]
but those ships will also be destroyed.”

²⁵Then Balaam got up and went back home, and Balak went his own way.

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:24 Cyprus Literally, “Kittim.” This might be Cyprus, Crete, or other places west of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
Numbers 24:24 Eber This might mean the people living west of the Euphrates River, or it might mean the “Hebrews,” the descendants of Eber. See Gen. 10:21.