Ezekiel 19:11
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11 Its strongest stem became
a ruler’s scepter;[a]
it towered aloft
among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.(A)
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- 19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters
Ezekiel 31:3
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3 Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
and of great height,
its top among the clouds.(A)
Daniel 4:11
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11 The tree grew great and strong,
its top reached to heaven,
and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.
Psalm 80:15
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15 the stock that your right hand planted.[a]
Daniel 4:20-21
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20 The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong so that its top reached to heaven and was visible to the whole earth,(A) 21 whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and which provided food for all, under which animals of the field lived and in whose branches the birds of the air had nests—
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Ezekiel 21:13
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13 For consider: What! If you despise the rod, will it not happen?[a] says the Lord God.
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- 21.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 21:10
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10 it is sharpened for slaughter,
honed to flash like lightning!
How can we make merry?
You have despised the rod
and all discipline.[a]
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- 21.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 19:14
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14 And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.(A)
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Ezekiel 19:12
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12 But it was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.(A)
Isaiah 11:1
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Psalm 110:2
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2 The Lord sends out from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your foes.(A)
Psalm 80:17
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17 But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
the one whom you made strong for yourself.(A)
Psalm 2:8-9
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8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage
and the ends of the earth your possession.(A)
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”(B)
Ezra 5:11
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11 This was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.(A)
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Ezra 4:20
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20 Jerusalem has had mighty kings who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.(A)
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Numbers 24:17
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17 I see him but not now;
I behold him but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the foreheads[a] of Moab
and the heads[b] of all the Shethites.(A)
Numbers 24:7-9
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7 Water shall flow from his buckets,
and his seed shall have abundant water;
his king shall be higher than Agag,
and his kingdom shall be exalted.(A)
8 God, who brings him out of Egypt,
is like the horns of a wild ox for him;
he shall devour the nations that are his foes
and break their bones.
He shall strike with his arrows.[a](B)
9 He crouched; he lay down like a lion
and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
and cursed is everyone who curses you.”(C)
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- 24.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 49:10
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10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him,[a]
and the obedience of the peoples is his.(A)
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- 49.10 Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs
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