Deuteronomy 33:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.

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  • Num 23:22 : 22 It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
  • 1 Kgs 22:11 : 11 And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.
  • Ps 44:5 : 5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
  • Ps 92:10 : 10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.
  • Gen 48:19 : 19 But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.
  • 1 Chr 5:1 : 1 And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.
  • Num 24:8 : 8 It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.
  • Num 26:34 : 34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.
  • Num 26:37 : 37 These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.
  • 2 Chr 18:10 : 10 And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.
  • Job 39:9-9 : 9 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. 10 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
  • Ps 22:21 : 21 Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
  • Ps 29:6 : 6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.
  • Isa 34:7 : 7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.
  • Hos 5:3 : 3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

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  • Num 24:8-9
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    8 It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

    9 He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

  • Num 23:21-22
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    21 He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

    22 It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

  • Deut 33:15-16
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    15 And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,

    16 The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers.

  • Isa 34:7
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    7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.

  • Deut 33:18
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    18 And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents.

  • Mic 5:4
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    4 And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.

  • Ps 29:6
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    6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

  • Ps 89:17
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    17 For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

  • Hab 3:4
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    4 He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

  • Ps 60:7
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    7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

  • Gen 49:26
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    26 Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.

  • Ps 148:14
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    14 He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

  • Gen 48:20
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    20 So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

  • Zech 10:7
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    7 And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.

  • Ps 108:8
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    8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

  • Ps 92:10
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    10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.

  • Ps 80:1-2
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    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

    2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

  • Lam 2:3
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    3 In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

  • Isa 31:4
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    4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

  • Job 39:8-10
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    8 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

    9 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

    10 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

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    24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Hos 10:11
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    11 And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

  • Job 39:20-21
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    20 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

    21 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

  • Ps 78:71
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    71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

  • Mic 5:8
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    8 Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

  • Isa 9:21
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    21 Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ezek 34:21
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    21 Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;

  • Jer 10:16
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    16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Mic 4:13
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    13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

  • Gen 49:24
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    24 But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:

  • Isa 10:26
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    26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

  • Zech 9:16
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    16 And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.

  • Zech 10:5
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    5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • Ps 22:21
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    21 Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

  • Jer 49:19
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    19 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

  • Joel 2:5
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    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Jer 51:19
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    19 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

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    15 As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, let us see things of wonder.

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    30 Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.

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    6 And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power.

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    13 You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

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    14 And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

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    33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,