Deuteronomy 33:17

World English Bible (2000)

The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh."

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  • Num 23:22 : 22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
  • 1 Kgs 22:11 : 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
  • Ps 44:5 : 5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
  • Ps 92:10 : 10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
  • Gen 48:19 : 19 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
  • 1 Chr 5:1 : 1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
  • Num 24:8 : 8 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them 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 the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
  • 2 Chr 18:10 : 10 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
  • Job 39:9-9 : 9 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? 10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
  • Ps 22:21 : 21 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
  • Ps 29:6 : 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
  • Isa 34:7 : 7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
  • Hos 5:3 : 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

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  • Num 24:8-9
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    8 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

    9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."

  • Num 23:21-22
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    21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

    22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

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    15 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

    16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

  • 7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

  • 18 Of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.

  • 4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

  • 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

  • 17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

  • 4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

  • 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

  • 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

  • 14 He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

  • 20 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  • 7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

  • 8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

  • 10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

  • Ps 80:1-2
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    1 Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

    2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

  • 3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • 4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

  • Job 39:8-10
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    66%

    8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

    9 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

    10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

  • 24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

  • Job 39:20-21
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    20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

    21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

  • 71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

  • 8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

  • 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

  • 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • 13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

  • 24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

  • 26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

  • 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

  • 5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

  • 21 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

  • 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

  • 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

  • 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • 15 "As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."

  • 30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

  • 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

  • 13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'

  • 14 Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

  • 33 and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,