These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 33:5 - New Revised Standard Version There arose a king in Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people assembled— the united 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.
When they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”
Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You should represent the people before God, and you should bring their cases before God;
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you in the womb and will help you: Do not fear, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, acclaimed as a king among them.
Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, majestic through the skies.
In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian.”
“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”