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;

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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;

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:16 That is, Jericho

16 (A)Now the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up (B)from the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the Wilderness of Judah, which lies in the South near (C)Arad; (D)and they went and dwelt among the people.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 4:11 Or father-in-law

11 Now Heber (A)the Kenite, of the children of (B)Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree at Zaanaim, (C)which is beside Kedesh.

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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.

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17 However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of (A)Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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24 “Most blessed of women(A) be Jael,(B)
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,(C)
    most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

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24 “Most blessed among women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
(A)Blessed is she among women in tents.

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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.

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Then Saul said to (A)the Kenites, (B)“Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For (C)you showed 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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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)

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10 Then Achish would say, “Where have you made a raid today?” And David would say, “Against the southern area of Judah, or against the southern area of (A)the Jerahmeelites, or against the southern area of (B)the Kenites.”

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29 and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites(A) and the Kenites;(B)

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29 those who were in Rachal, those who were in the cities of (A)the Jerahmeelites, those who were in the cities of the (B)Kenites,

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55 and the clans of scribes[a] who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, Shimeathites and Sucathites. These are the Kenites(A) who came from Hammath,(B) the father of the Rekabites.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or of the Sopherites
  2. 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or father of Beth Rekab

55 And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites. These were the (A)Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of (B)Rechab.

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