Numbers 24:17

New International Version

¹⁷“I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.^(A)
A star will come out of Jacob;^(B)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.^(C)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,^(D)
    the skulls^[a]^(E) of^[b] all the people of Sheth.^[c]

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters

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Numbers 24:19

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¹⁹A ruler will come out of Jacob^(A)
and destroy the survivors of the city.”

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Judges 1:1-2

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Israel Fights the Remaining Canaanites^(A)

1 After the death^(B) of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, “Who of us is to go up first^(C) to fight against the Canaanites?^(D)”

²The Lord answered, “Judah^(E) shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.^(F)”

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Judges 20:18

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¹⁸The Israelites went up to Bethel^[a]^(A) and inquired of God.^(B) They said, “Who of us is to go up first^(C) to fight^(D) against the Benjamites?”

The Lord replied, “Judah^(E) shall go first.”

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Footnotes

Judges 20:18 Or to the house of God; also in verse 26

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1 Chronicles 5:2

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²and though Judah^(A) was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler^(B) came from him, the rights of the firstborn^(C) belonged to Joseph)—

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1 Chronicles 28:4

New International Version

⁴“Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me^(A) from my whole family^(B) to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah^(C) as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.^(D)