Numbers 24:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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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.
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
  • Num 23:24 : 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.
  • Ps 2:9 : 9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
  • Jer 50:9 : 9 For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.
  • Dan 6:24 : 24 Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
  • Deut 7:1 : 1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
  • Deut 32:23 : 23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 17 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.

  • Job 39:8-11
    4 verses
    74%

    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;

    11 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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:

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

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

  • 8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

  • 28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

  • 7 Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

  • 24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • Job 39:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

    24 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

  • 9 Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.

  • 3 There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

  • 2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

  • 6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • 4 From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;

  • Job 40:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18 Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

    19 Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

  • 8 He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.

  • Lam 2:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

    4 His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

  • 22 Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

  • Dan 8:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

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

    7 And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.

  • 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

  • 13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

  • 34 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • Ps 58:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

    7 Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

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    34 He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

    35 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • 10 Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.

  • 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.

  • 11 Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

  • 2 The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.

  • 14 You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

  • 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.

  • 15 And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.