Genesis 49:8

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Genesis 49:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

9 Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

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Genesis 29:35

And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

Genesis 44:19

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Genesis 44:20

And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:21

Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’

Genesis 44:22

So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’

Genesis 44:23

But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

Genesis 44:24

Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.

Genesis 44:25

Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’

Genesis 44:26

But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’

Genesis 44:27

And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44:28

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:29

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

Genesis 44:30

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

Genesis 44:31

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Genesis 44:32

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’

Genesis 44:33

Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Genesis 46:12

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

Deuteronomy 33:7

And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”

1 Chronicles 5:2

And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

Psalms 76:1

God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

Hebrews 7:14

For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.

Numbers 1:27

those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

Numbers 10:14

First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.

Numbers 26:22

These were the clans of Judah, and their registration numbered 76,500.

Judges 1:1

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”

Judges 1:2

“Judah shall go up,” answered the LORD. “Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands.”

Judges 20:18

The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.

2 Samuel 24:9

And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

1 Kings 4:1

So King Solomon ruled over Israel,

1 Kings 4:2

and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

1 Kings 4:3

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

1 Kings 4:4

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4:5

Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;

1 Kings 4:6

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

1 Kings 4:7

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

1 Kings 4:8

and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

1 Kings 4:9

Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;

1 Kings 4:10

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

1 Kings 4:11

Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);

1 Kings 4:12

Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4:13

Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

1 Kings 4:15

Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

1 Kings 4:16

Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;

1 Kings 4:17

Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;

1 Kings 4:18

Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

1 Kings 4:19

Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1 Kings 4:21

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:22

Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

1 Kings 4:24

For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.

1 Kings 4:25

Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

1 Kings 4:26

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

1 Kings 4:27

Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

1 Kings 4:28

Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

1 Kings 4:29

And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4:31

He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

1 Kings 4:32

Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

1 Kings 4:33

He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

1 Kings 4:34

So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

1 Chronicles 12:1

Now these were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the mighty men who helped him in battle;

1 Chronicles 12:2

they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):

1 Chronicles 12:3

Ahiezer their chief and Joash, who were the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;

1 Chronicles 12:4

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

1 Chronicles 12:5

Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

1 Chronicles 12:6

Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, who were Korahites;

1 Chronicles 12:7

and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.

1 Chronicles 12:8

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

1 Chronicles 12:9

Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second in command, Eliab the third,

1 Chronicles 12:10

Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

1 Chronicles 12:11

Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

1 Chronicles 12:12

Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

1 Chronicles 12:13

Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbanai the eleventh.

1 Chronicles 12:14

These Gadites were army commanders, the least of whom was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.

1 Chronicles 12:15

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

1 Chronicles 12:16

Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

1 Chronicles 12:17

And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”

1 Chronicles 12:18

Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, the chief of the Thirty, and he said: “We are yours, O David! We are with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God helps you.” So David received them and made them leaders of his troops.

1 Chronicles 12:19

Some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (They did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers consulted and sent David away, saying, “It will cost us our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”)

1 Chronicles 12:20

When David went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 12:21

They helped David against the raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and commanders in the army.

1 Chronicles 12:22

For at that time men came to David day after day to help him, until he had a great army, like the army of God.

1 Chronicles 12:23

Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:

1 Chronicles 12:24

From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.

1 Chronicles 12:25

From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.

1 Chronicles 12:26

From Levi: 4,600,

1 Chronicles 12:27

including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,

1 Chronicles 12:28

and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.

1 Chronicles 12:29

From Benjamin, the kinsmen of Saul: 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to the house of Saul up to that time.

1 Chronicles 12:30

From Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous among their own clans.

1 Chronicles 12:31

From the half-tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:32

From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.

1 Chronicles 12:33

From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.

1 Chronicles 12:34

From Naphtali: 1,000 commanders, accompanied by 37,000 men with shield and spear.

1 Chronicles 12:35

From Dan: 28,600 prepared for battle.

1 Chronicles 12:36

From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.

1 Chronicles 12:37

And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.

1 Chronicles 12:38

All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:39

They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

1 Chronicles 12:40

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:12

He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

2 Chronicles 11:13

Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11:14

For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 11:15

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

2 Chronicles 11:16

Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 11:17

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

2 Chronicles 14:8

Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 15:9

And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 17:2

He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

2 Chronicles 17:14

These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: From Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him 300,000 mighty men of valor;

2 Chronicles 17:15

next to him, Jehohanan the commander, and with him 280,000;

2 Chronicles 17:16

and next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer for the LORD, and with him 200,000 mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 30:11

Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Psalms 18:40

You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.

Psalms 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

Psalms 18:42

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Psalms 18:43

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Psalms 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalms 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalms 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Hebrews 10:13

Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

Joshua 10:24

When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

2 Samuel 22:41

You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.

Ezekiel 21:29

while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you— to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

Genesis 27:29

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

Genesis 37:7

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Genesis 37:8

“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

Genesis 37:9

Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Genesis 37:10

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

2 Samuel 5:3

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.