These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
Deuteronomy 33:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So he became King in Jeshurun , when the leaders of the people gathered with the tribes of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people And the tribes of Israel were gathered together. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The Lord] was King in Jeshurun (Israel) when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. American Standard Version (1901) And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. Common English Bible A king came to rule in Jeshurun, when the people’s leaders gathered together, when Israel’s tribes were one. Catholic Public Domain Version The king shall have great righteousness, at the gathering of the princes of the people with the tribes of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He shall be king with the most right: the princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel. |
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God’s statutes and laws.’
Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to him.
This is the word of the Lord your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb: He will help you. Do not fear, Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
He considers no disaster for Jacob; he sees no trouble for Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
Then Jeshurun , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, the clouds in his majesty.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him.
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, ‘Rule over us, you as well as your sons and your grandsons, for you delivered us from the power of Midian.’
‘Please speak in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, “Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you or that one man rule over you? ” Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.’