Numbers 24:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ »I see him, but not now! I behold him, but not near! A star shall come forth from Jacob. A scepter shall rise from Israel and shall crush through the forehead of Moab. It will tear down all the sons of Sheth.

²⁵ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.« ²⁶ Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on (proclaim) the name of Jehovah.

³ When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. ⁴ After Seth was born, Adam lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. ⁵ Altogether, Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died. ⁶ Seth lived one hundred and five years when he became the father of Enosh. ⁷ After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters. ⁸ Altogether, Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and then he died. ⁹ Enosh lived ninety years. He became the father of Kenan. ¹⁰ After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years and had other sons and daughters. ¹¹ Enosh lived a total of nine hundred and five years, and then he died. ¹² Kenan lived seventy years. He became the father of Mahalalel. ¹³ After that Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years and had other sons and daughters. ¹⁴ Altogether, Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. ¹⁵ When Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared. ¹⁶ After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years and had other sons and daughters. ¹⁷ Mahalalel lived a total of eight hundred and ninety-five years, and then he died. ¹⁸ When Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he became the father of Enoch. ¹⁹ After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. ²⁰ Jared lived a total of nine hundred and sixty-two years, and then he died. ²¹ When Enoch lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. ²² After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years and had other sons and daughters. ²³ Altogether, Enoch lived three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ Enoch walked with God. Then he was no more, because God took (moved) him away. ²⁵ When Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech. ²⁶ After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred eighty-two years and had other sons and daughters. ²⁷ Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died. ²⁸ When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he had a son. ²⁹ He named him Noah. He said: »He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.«

¹⁰ »The royal scepter shall not depart from Judah. His descendants will always rule. Nations will bring him tribute and bow in obedience before him. This, until Shiloh comes and all will obey him.

²⁹ »You Moabites are done for! Your god Chemosh deserted your people. They were captured, taken away by King Sihon the Amorite.

³⁸ Saul called his army officers together and said: »We have to find out what sin has kept God from answering.

² He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.

⁵ When King Ahab of Israel died Mesha rebelled against Israel.

²⁶ The king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle. So he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Edom. However they failed. ²⁷ He took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.

² He also defeated Moab, and the Moabites became David’s subjects and paid taxes to him.

²⁵ »I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth. ²⁶ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh. ²⁷ »I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!

⁶ God is your throne forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

⁸ He will have dominion from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth. ⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring tribute (presents). The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts. ¹¹ Yes, all kings will bow down before him. All nations will serve him.

⁷⁰ He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens. ⁷¹ He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob, of Israel, the people who belonged to Jehovah. ⁷² With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd. With skill he guided them.

² Jehovah will extend your powerful scepter from Zion. He will say: »Rule in the midst of your enemies.«

⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will accomplish this.

¹ Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined. Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined. ² They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off. ³ They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears. ⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out. Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud and tremble with fear. ⁵ My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith. They weep as they go. Some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly. ⁶ The Brook of Nimrim is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left. ⁷ The people go across the Valley of Willows, trying to escape with all their material possessions. ⁸ Everywhere at Moab's borders the sound of crying is heard. It is heard at the towns of Eglaim and Beerelim. ⁹ Dimon’s waters are full of blood. I will bring still more upon Dimon, a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.

¹ Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion. ² Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River. ³ »Give us counsel and render a decision. Make your shadow like night at high noon. Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the refugees. ⁴ »Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you. Be their shelter from the destroyer. The oppressor will come to an end. Destruction will cease! For the aggressor will vanish from the land. ⁵ »In love a throne will be established and in faithfulness a man will sit on it. One shall sit upon it in truth and faithfulness. He will be from the tent of David. He will judge and seek justice and speed the cause of righteousness.« ⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab and of his arrogance. We know of his pride, conceit and empty boasting. ⁷ The Moabites cry, they cry out together for Moab. Lament and grieve for the men and the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth. ⁸ The fields of Heshbon and the vines of Sibmah wither. The rulers of the nations have trampled down the choicest vines, which once reached Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots spread out and went as far as the sea. ⁹ So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. O Heshbon, O Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled. ¹⁰ Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards. No one sings or shouts in the vineyards! No one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting. ¹¹ That is why my heart mourns for Moab like a harp. I mourn for Kir Hareseth. ¹² When the people of Moab appear at the worship site, they will only wear themselves out. They will come into the holy place to pray, but they will not be able to. ¹³ This is the message Jehovah spoke about Moab in the past. ¹⁴ Now Jehovah says: »Moab's honor will be despised within three years. I will count them like workers count the years left of their contracts. In spite of their great number, the survivors will be very few and powerless.«

⁴⁵ ‘Helpless people have run to find protection in Heshbon, the city that King Sihon once ruled, but it is in flames. It has burned up leaders of Moab and destroyed those proud people.’

⁴ »The corner stone will come from them. The tent peg will come from them. Every ruler and the battle bow will come from them.

¹⁰ »I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.

² They asked: »Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and came to offer him praise.« ³ King Herod was troubled when he heard this. Jerusalem was also troubled. ⁴ He called together all the chief priests and teachers of the Law and asked where will the Messiah be born? ⁵ »Bethlehem in Judea,« they answered. This is what the prophet wrote: ⁶ »Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are not the least of the leading cities of Judah. A leader will come out of you. He will shepherd my people Israel.« ⁷ Then Herod secretly called the astrologers to find out exactly the time the star appeared. ⁸ He sent them to Bethlehem. He said: »Search diligently for the young child. When you find him, bring me word so I may come and bow down to him also.« ⁹ After they heard the king, they followed the star until it stopped over the place where the child was.

³² »He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. Jehovah God will give him the throne of his father David. (Isaiah 11:1-10) ³³ »He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will not end.«

⁷⁸ »A rising of light will visit us from on high because of the tender mercy of our God.

⁸ But he says to the Son: »God is your throne forever and ever. (Your throne, Oh God-like one, is forever.) A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. (Psalm 45:6, 7)

¹⁹ We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God’s Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.

¹¹ Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.

¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: »Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones. ¹⁵ »They execute judgment upon all. They convict all the ungodly of all their wicked behavior, deeds that they have committed in an irreverent way, and of all the hard things those detestable sinners have spoken against him.«

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.

¹⁵ The seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were great voices in heaven, saying: »The kingdom of the world has become our God’s, and his Christ will rule as king forever and ever.«

¹⁶ »'I Jesus have sent my angel to tell you about these things in the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.'«