Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim is my helmet,
    Judah my scepter.

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10 The (A)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff (B)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:10 By a slight revocalization; a slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Targum) until he comes to whom it belongs; Hebrew until Shiloh comes, or until he comes to Shiloh

There (A)thrones for judgment were set,
    the thrones of the house of David.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:5 Dead Sea Scroll lacks verses 4–5

Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel

But (A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (B)Mahanaim,

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

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The Inheritance East of the Jordan

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

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:8 Hebrew With it

17 (A)A firstborn bull[a]—he has majesty,
    and his horns are the horns of a (B)wild ox;
with them (C)he shall gore the peoples,
    all of them, to the ends of the earth;
(D)they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
    and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:17 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull

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