Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 24:22

22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted▪ untill Ashur shall carry thee away captive .

Heb. Kain, i. e. the Kenite, so called, either by a transposition of letters, which is very usual in the Hebrew tongue: or from the name of some eminent place where they lived, or person from whom they were descended, though now the memory of them be utterly lost, as it hath fared with innumerable other places and persons famous in their generations mentioned in antient heathen writers.

(i. e.) Shall be by degrees diminished and wasted by the incursions of divers enemies, till at last the Assyrian comes to compleat the work and carries them into captivity. For the Kenites lived partly among the ten tribes, Ios. 19. 33. compared with Iudg. 4. 11. and partly with the two tribes, Iudg. 1. 16. and 4. 16, 17. and were carried captive with them, part by Salmaneser, the king of Assyria, 2 King. 17. 6. and part by Nebuchadnezzar, who also is called an Assyrian, Ezra. 6. 22. Isa. 52. 4. The words may be rendred thus, shall be wasted. How long? to wit, shall they be thus wasted? (these particles being oft used abruptly and pathetically in the same manner, Psal. 6. 3. and 90. 13. Isa. 6. 11.) till Ashur comes, Ashur shall carry thee away captive.

Marginal references: Heb. Kain.; Or, how long shall it be ere Ashur carry thee away captive?