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Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim is my helmet;
    Judah is my scepter.(A)

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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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Footnotes

  1. 49.10 Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs

For there the thrones for judgment were set up,
    the thrones of the house of David.(A)

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Ishbaal King of Israel

But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbaal[a] son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

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  1. 2.8 Gk: Heb Ish-bosheth

The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.(A)

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The Territory East of the Jordan

With the other half-tribe of Manasseh[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:(A) from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland from[b] Medeba as far as Dibon;(B) 10 and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;(C) 11 and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;

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  1. 13.8 Cn Compare Gk: Heb With it
  2. 13.9 Compare Gk: Heb lacks from

At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.(A)

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17 A firstborn[a] bull—majesty is his!
    His horns are the horns of a wild ox;
with them he gores the peoples
    all together to the ends of the earth;
such are the myriads of Ephraim,
    such the thousands of Manasseh.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33.17 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT His firstborn