Deuteronomy 33:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.

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  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
  • Judg 8:22 : 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
  • Judg 9:2 : 2 Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.
  • Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
  • Gen 36:31 : 31 And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.
  • Exod 18:16 : 16 And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.
  • Exod 18:19 : 19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:
  • Num 16:13-15 : 13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us? 14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. 15 Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.
  • Num 23:21 : 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.

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    3 All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.

    4 Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.

  • Deut 33:21
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    21 He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel.

  • 2 Sam 5:2-3
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    2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

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  • Num 30:1
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    1 So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

  • Deut 1:15
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    15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

  • 1 Chr 11:2-3
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    2 In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • Exod 18:25
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    25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.

  • Deut 17:14
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    14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • Num 1:16
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    16 These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
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    2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

  • Deut 1:4
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    4 After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:

  • Deut 1:13
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    13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

  • Josh 22:14
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    14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.

  • 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;

  • Num 32:28
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    28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Judg 5:9
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    9 Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

  • Deut 33:1
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    1 Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.

  • Ps 135:11-12
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    11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

    12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.

  • Judg 5:13
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    13 Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.

  • Josh 12:5
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    5 Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

  • Deut 33:26
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    26 No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

  • Deut 29:10
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    10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,

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    30 Then in the hearing of all the meeting of Israel, Moses said the words of this song, to the end.

  • 2 Sam 2:9
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    9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

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    3 Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Num 13:3
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    3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

  • Num 23:21
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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.

  • Deut 4:46
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    46 On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt:

  • Num 33:50
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    50 And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

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    6 Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.

  • 1 Sam 12:12
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    12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

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    5 So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.

  • Deut 3:1
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    1 Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.

  • Isa 32:1
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    1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

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    1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.