Numbers 24:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ God is bringing him out of Egypt. like the strong horns of a wild ox. He devours nations hostile to him. He will crush their bones. His arrows will pierce them.

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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 the nations with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s jar.”

Psalm 21:12

Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.

Psalm 45:5

In your majesty ride victoriously, on behalf of truth, meekness and justice. Let your right hand display awesome things.

Psalm 45:6

Your arrows are sharp. Peoples fall beneath you— into the heart of the king’s enemies.

Exodus 23:22

But if you listen closely to His voice, and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Isaiah 38:13

I stilled my soul till morning. Like a lion, He will break all my bones. From day till night You make my end.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock— lions have driven them away. First, Assyria’s king devoured him. This last one who broke his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:9

For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the north. They will form battle lines against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows will be like a warrior who bereaves, not returning empty.

Daniel 6:24

Then the king was overjoyed, and ordered Daniel taken up out of the den. So Daniel was lifted out of the pit. No injury of any kind was found on him because he had trusted in his God.

Numbers 14:9

Only don’t rebel against Adonai, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They will be food for us. The protection over them is gone. Adonai is with us! Do not fear them.”

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the wilderness, because there is no bread, no water, and our very spirits detest the despicable food?

Numbers 23:22

God is bringing them from Egypt with the strong horns of the wild ox!

Numbers 23:24

The people rise like a lioness, like a lion who does not rest until he eats his prey and drinks his victim’s blood!”

Matthew 2:15

He stayed there until Herod’s death. This was to fulfill what was spoken by Adonai through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My son.”

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap calamities upon them. With My arrows I will finish them.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make My arrows drunk from blood, and My sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slain and the captive, the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

Deuteronomy 7:1

“When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out many nations before you—the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

Joshua 2:10

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