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Numbers‬ ‭21:1‬

“When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭21:1‬

Canaanite H3669: a pedlar who conducted mercantile; trafficker. From H3667: humiliated; a son of Ham; from H3665: to bend the knee; hence to vanquish; bring down into subjection; humble self.


“…Ham was the father of Canaan.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭9:18‬


“When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, he said, ‘Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.’”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭9:24-25‬

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭7:1‬

Arad H6166: to sequester itself; fugitive.


“He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭7:15


“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭26:27‬


“But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1:18‬


The Negeb H5045: to be parched; the south (from its drought).


“Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭73:18-19‬


Atharim H871: to step; spies.


“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭4:25-27‬


“None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭13:17-18‬


He fought against Israel,


“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭5:8‬


“So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭7:21‬


And took some of them


“But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭7:23‬


“Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭48:46‬


“Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive.”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭24:22‬


“He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips. He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty. He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders. He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.”

‭‭Job‬ ‭12:17-22‬


Captive H7628: exiled; captured. From H7618: subdivision into flashes or streamers; to flame; the agate.


“Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.


“Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you. Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey. For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’


“Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭30:10-11, 15-17, 23-24‬


“If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭1:9‬

“And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭6:13‬

“And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭37:31-32‬


“Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.”

‭‭Micah‬ ‭5:7‬


“In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭28:5‬

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