Genesis 49:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

Cross References

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Genesis 29:35

She conceived again and bore a son and said, “This time I will praise the Lord,” therefore she named him Judah; then she ceased bearing.

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 46:12

The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan), and the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

2 Samuel 22:41

You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

2 Samuel 24:9

Joab reported to the king the number of those who had been recorded: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand soldiers able to draw the sword, and those of Judah were five hundred thousand.

2 Samuel 5:3

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my ancestral house to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took delight in making me king over all Israel.

1 Chronicles 5:2

though Judah became prominent among his brothers and a ruler came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph.)

2 Chronicles 14:8

Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah armed with large shields and spears and two hundred eighty thousand troops from Benjamin who carried shields and drew bows; all these were mighty warriors.

2 Chronicles 15:9

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing as aliens with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 17:2

He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had taken.

2 Chronicles 30:11

Only a few from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Psalm 76:1

In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel.

Isaiah 9:7

Great will be his authority, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Ezekiel 21:29

Offering false visions for you, divining lies for you, they place you over the necks of the vile, wicked ones— those whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

Numbers 1:27

those enrolled of the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 10:14

The standard of the camp of Judah set out first, company by company, and over the whole company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Numbers 26:20

The descendants of Judah by their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.

Numbers 26:22

These are the clans of Judah by the number of those enrolled: seventy-six thousand five hundred.

Deuteronomy 33:7

And this he said of Judah, “O Lord, give heed to Judah, and bring him to his people; strengthen his hands for him, and be a help against his adversaries.”

Hebrews 10:13

and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.”

Hebrews 7:14

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

Joshua 10:24

When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Joshua 15:20

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.”

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Judges 20:18

The Israelites proceeded to go up to Bethel, where they inquired of God, “Which of us shall go up first to battle against the Benjaminites?” And the Lord answered, “Judah shall go up first.”