Numbers 24:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ "Ěl who brought him out of Mitsrayim is for them like the horns of a wild ox; he devours nations, his enemies; and he breaks their bones, and with his arrows he smites.

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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

Break them with a rod of iron, Dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

Psalm 21:12

For You make them turn their back, When You aim with Your bowstring toward their faces.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp In the heart of the Sovereign’s enemies – Peoples fall under You.

Psalm 45:6

Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; The sceptre of Your reign Is a sceptre of straightness.

Exodus 23:22

“But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I speak, then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who distress you.

Isaiah 38:13

“I soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me.

Jeremiah 50:17

“Yisra’ĕl is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away. First the sovereign of Ashshur devoured him, and now, at last, this Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel has broken his bones.”

Jeremiah 50:9

“For look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Baḇel an assembly of great nations from a land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be captured – their arrows are like those of a mighty skilled man, not returning empty-handed.

Daniel 6:24

And the sovereign gave orders and they brought those men who had accused Dani’ĕl, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the den of lions. And the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they reached the floor of the den.

Numbers 14:9

“Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה is with us. Do not fear them.”

Numbers 21:5

And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”

Numbers 23:22

"Ěl who brought them out of Mitsrayim, is for them like the horns of a wild ox.

Numbers 23:24

“Look, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it lies not down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

Matthew 2:15

and remained there until the death of Herodes, to fill what was spoken by יהוה through the prophet, saying, “Out of Mitsrayim I have called My Son.”

Deuteronomy 32:23

“I gather evils upon them, I use up My arrows upon them –

Deuteronomy 32:42

I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired enemy chiefs.’

Deuteronomy 7:1

“When יהוה your Elohim brings you into the land which you go to possess, He shall also clear away many nations before you: the Ḥittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Kena‛anites and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you.

Joshua 2:10

“For we have heard how יהוה dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you when you came out of Mitsrayim, and what you did to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yardĕn, Siḥon and Oḡ, whom you put under the ban.