Numbers 24:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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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.
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Num 23:24 : 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."
  • Ps 2:9 : 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
  • Jer 50:9 : 9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
  • Dan 6:24 : 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
  • Num 21:5 : 5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
  • Deut 7:1 : 1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
  • Deut 32:23 : 23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 17 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."

  • Job 39:8-11
    4 verses
    74%

    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?

    11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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."

  • 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."

  • 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),

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

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

  • 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

  • 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

  • 7 Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

  • 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

  • Job 39:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

    24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

  • 28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

  • 9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

  • 3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

  • 2 Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

  • 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • 4 From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

  • Job 40:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

    19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

  • 8 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;

  • Lam 2:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    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 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

  • 22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

  • Dan 8:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

    7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none who could deliver the ram out of his hand.

  • 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

  • 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

  • 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

  • Ps 58:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

    7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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    34 He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me on my high places.

    35 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • 10 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."

  • 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.

  • 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

  • 2 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

  • 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

  • 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.

  • 15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.