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

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

16 “I, Jesus,(A) have sent my angel(B) to give you[a] this testimony for the churches.(C) I am the Root(D) and the Offspring of David,(E) and the bright Morning Star.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 22:16 The Greek is plural.

32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.(A) The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,(B) 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom(C) will never end.”(D)

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10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,(A)
    nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,[a]
until he to whom it belongs[b] shall come(B)
    and the obedience of the nations shall be his.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:10 Or from his descendants
  2. Genesis 49:10 Or to whom tribute belongs; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

The Seventh Trumpet

15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet,(A) and there were loud voices(B) in heaven, which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become
    the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,(C)
    and he will reign for ever and ever.”(D)

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“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”[a](A)
    and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;(B)
    and all peoples on earth “will mourn(C) because of him.”[b]
So shall it be! Amen.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 1:7 Daniel 7:13
  2. Revelation 1:7 Zech. 12:10

19 We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable,(A) and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light(B) shining in a dark place, until the day dawns(C) and the morning star(D) rises in your hearts.(E)

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From Judah will come the cornerstone,(A)
    from him the tent peg,(B)
from him the battle bow,(C)
    from him every ruler.

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Your throne, O God,[a] will last for ever and ever;(A)
    a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

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  1. Psalm 45:6 Here the king is addressed as God’s representative.

But about the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;(A)
    a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

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78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
    by which the rising sun(A) will come to us from heaven

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and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?(A) We saw his star(B) when it rose and have come to worship him.”

When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem(C) in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:

“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
    are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
    who will shepherd my people Israel.’[a](D)

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

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  1. Matthew 2:6 Micah 5:2,4

11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;(A) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;(B) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.(C)

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