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Numbers 24:7

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pour: Psalms 68:26; Proverbs 5:16-18; Isaiah 48:1

many waters: Psalms 93:3-4; Jeremiah 51:13; Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15

his king: Ezra 4:20; Psalms 2:6-10, Psalms 18:43; John 1:49; Philippians 2:10-11; Revelation 19:16

Agag: 1 Samuel 15:8-9, 1 Samuel 15:32-33

his kingdom: 2 Samuel 5:12; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Chronicles 14:2; Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; Revelation 11:15

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