Numbers 24:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ God brought him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: He shall eat up the nations his enemies, And shall break their bones, And pierce them through with his arrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ God brought [Israel] forth out of Egypt; [Israel] has strength like the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his enemies, crushing their bones and piercing them through with his arrows.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite them through with his arrows.

Common English Bible

⁸ God, who brought him from Egypt, is like a magnificent wild bull for him. He will devour enemy nations and break their bones; he will strike with his arrows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Away from Egypt, God has led him, whose strength is like the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

Numbers 24:8 Cross References

Psalm 2:9

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Psalm 21:12

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Psalm 45:6

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;

Exodus 23:22

“But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.

Jeremiah 50:9

For I am going to stir up and bring against Babylon a company of great nations from the land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

Daniel 6:24

The king gave a command, and those who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

Numbers 14:9

Only, do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are no more than bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”

Numbers 23:22

God, who brings them out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for them.

Numbers 23:24

Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”

Matthew 2:15

and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired enemy.’

Deuteronomy 7:1

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy and he clears away many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

Joshua 2:10

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.