Numbers 24:8
God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.
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- Num 23:22 : 22 God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.
- Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.
- Jer 50:17 : 17 “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.
- Num 23:24 : 24 Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”
- Ps 2:9 : 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
- Num 14:9 : 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”
- Isa 38:13 : 13 I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.
- Jer 50:9 : 9 For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon a host of mighty nations from the land of the north. They will set up their battle lines against her. They will come from the north and capture her. Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier who does not return from the battle empty-handed.
- Dan 6:24 : 24 The king gave another order, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions’ den– they, their children, and their wives. They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
- Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”
- Ps 21:12 : 12 For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.
- Deut 7:1 : 1 The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–
- Deut 32:23 : 23 I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.
- Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh– the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”
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