Numbers 24:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ I can point to him, though he is not now; I hail him happy tho" he is not near. A star will arise out of Jacob; There shall rise up a man out of Israel, And he will smite the princes of Moab, And plunder all the sons of Seth:

²⁵ And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, "For God hath raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew." ²⁶ And Seth had a son; and he called his name Enos. He hoped that he would invoke the name of the Lord God.

³ And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own likeness and after his own image, and called his name Seth. ⁴ And the days of Adam which he lived after he begot Seth were seven hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ⁵ So all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ⁶ And Seth lived two hundred and five years and begot Enos. ⁷ And Seth lived after he begot Enos seven hundred and seven years and begot sons and daughters. ⁸ So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. ⁹ And Enos lived one hundred and ninety years and begot Kainan. ¹⁰ And Enos lived after he begot Kainan seven hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹¹ So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. ¹² And Kainan lived one hundred and seventy years and begot Maleleel. ¹³ And Kainan lived after he begot Maleleel seven hundred and forty years and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴ So all the days of Kainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. ¹⁵ And Maleleel lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Jared. ¹⁶ And Maleleel lived after he begot Jared seven hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁷ So all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety five years, and he died. ¹⁸ And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years and begot Enoch. ¹⁹ And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰ So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and he died. ²¹ And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Mathousala. ²² And Enoch continued to please God after he begot Mathousala two hundred years and begot sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. ²⁴ And Enoch continued to please God and was not found, for God translated him. ²⁵ And Mathousala lived one hundred and eighty seven years and begot Lamech. ²⁶ And Mathousala lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years and begot sons and daughters. ²⁷ So all the days of Mathousala which he lived were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died. ²⁸ And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty eight years and begot a son ²⁹ and called his name Noe, saying "This child will cause us to cease from our works and from the toils of our hands and from the earth which the Lord hath cursed.

¹⁰ A chief shall not fail from Judas. Nor a leader from his loins; Till the things reserved for him shall come; Even He, the expectation of nations.

²⁹ Alas! for thee Moab! Thou wast undone, people of Chamos! Their sons were delivered up to save their lives; And their daughters were captives to Seon, king of the Amorites,

³⁸ Then Saul said, Present here all the chiefs of Israel, and know and see by whom this sin hath been done this day;

² David also smote Moab, and measured them with lines, having caused them to dwell in the country, and there were two lines to be put to death, and two lines to be saved alive. So Moab became servants to David, and brought him gifts.

⁵ And it happened that after the death of Achab, when the king of Moab broke covenant with Israel,

²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword, to cut their way through to the king of Edom. But they he could not, ²⁷ he took his son, his first born, whom he had made king in his stead, and offered him up as a whole burnt offering on the walls. Upon which great commiseration came upon Israel, and they departed from him, and returned into their own land.

² He smote Moab also, and they became vassals to David and brought him gifts.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal, ²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things. ²⁷ For from the Lord those things have been done to me, of which I alone am conscious; which mine eyes have seen, and no other; and which have all been done to me in my bosom.

⁶ Thy throne, God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude.

⁸ And let him rule from sea to sea; and from the river to the limits of the World. ⁹ Let the Ethiopeans bow down before him; and let his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents. ¹¹ Let all the kings pay him homage; all the nations serve as vassals.

⁷⁰ and he chose David his servant and took him from the flocks of sheep; ⁷¹ he took them from tending the ewes with young to feed his servant Jacob and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them in the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skill of his hands.

² Out of Sion the Lord will send thee a rod of power: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

⁷ His government shall be great and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to reestablish it, and support it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

¹ The Oracle against Moab. In the night Moab is destroyed; for by night is destroyed the bulwark of Moab. ² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds. ³ In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping; ⁴ because Esebon and Eleale have screamed: even to Jassa their voice hath been heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will be afflicted. ⁵ The heart of Moab within her uttereth lowings, which reach Segor: for she is a three headed heifer. At the ascent of Louith weepers will come up to thee; by the way of Aroniim destruction and dismay are roaring. ⁶ The water of Nemereim will be dried up; and its grass will fail; there will be no green grass. ⁷ But even thus it shall not be saved; for I will bring the Arabs against that valley; and they shall take it. ⁸ For the cry of war touched the border of Moab at Agaleim, and the scream thereof reacheth even to the well of Aileim. ⁹ As for the water of Deimon, it shall be full of blood; for I will bring the Arabians against Deimon, and carry off the seed of Moab and Ariel; and the remnant of Adama

¹ I will send away as reptiles on the earth. Is Petra a desert? There is the mountain of the daughter of Sion [to fly to] ² for thou shalt be [like the young of a flown bird carried away] Thou, Moab, shalt be a vassal; and after that there will be a greater tribute of lambs. ³ Take counsel [O Sion] and make for her every where a shelter from grief. In midnight darkness they will flee. They are confounded. Be not thou incensed. ⁴ Let the fugitives of Moab sojourn with thee. They will be a shelter to you from the face of a pursuer. Because thy share in the war is taken away; and the chief who trampled down is destroyed from this land; ⁵ therefore a throne shall be established with mercy, and on it one shall be seated with truth; in the tabernacle of David, executing justice, and searching out judgment and promoting righteousness. ⁶ [s] "We have heard of the haughtiness of Moab; he is very insolent." [J] This haughtiness I have totally removed. "Is not this, is not this the oracle concerning thee? ⁷ Moab shall raise the mournful cry, for in the country of Moab they shall all utter the cry of Woe, but to them who dwell in the habitations of Seth thou shalt extend care and shalt not be ashamed." ⁸ The plains of Esebon shall mourn; the vineyard Sebama. Ye who drink up the nations, trample down her vineyards to Jazer. You need not march in close array: roam through the wilderness. They who were dispatched were wholly given up, for they passed through quite to the sea. ⁹ [p] Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, Esebon and Eleale. [J] Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down and all shall be laid prostrate; ¹⁰ therefore gladness and the shout of joy shall be taken from the vineyards. And in thy vineyards they shall not rejoice, nor tread out wine in thy cisterns, for a stop is put to the shout of joy. ¹¹ [p] For Moab therefore will my bowels sound like a kithara, and my entrails, as when thou didst consecrate a wall; ¹² but it will be for the purpose of making thee ashamed. Because Moab had tired himself at the altars, therefore he will go in to the works of his hands; that they may intercede; but they shall not be able to deliver him. ¹³ This is the decree which the Lord pronounced against Moab, when he spoke. ¹⁴ And now I say, within three years of the years of an hireling the glory of Moab shall be debased with all his abundant wealth; and he shall be left few in number and of no estimation.

⁴ When from him he hath looked, and from him drawn up in array; then from him shall issue forth the wrathful bow, from him every one who sallieth out at the same time.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

² saying, Where is he who is born to be king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rise, and are come to pay him homage. ³ Upon hearing this, Herod the king was alarmed and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ And having assembled all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them, where the Christ should be born. ⁵ And they told him. At Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written by the prophet, ⁶ "And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judea art by no means the least among the leaders of Juda; for out of thee shall come a leader, who shall tend my people Israel" ⁷ Then Herod, having privately called the magians, got exact information from them concerning the time of the star's appearing; ⁸ and sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go and make exact inquiry about the child. And when you have found him bring me word, that I also may go and pay him homage. ⁹ So in obedience to the king they departed; and lo! the star which they had seen at his rise moved on before them, till it came and stood over the place where the child was.

³² He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

⁷⁸ through the tender mercy of our God, by which the Anatole [the day spring] from on high hath visited us

⁸ but with respect to the son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: The sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude:

¹⁹ Therefore we have a more complete confirmation of the prophetic word, to which you do well in giving attention, as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawn, and the bringer of light rise in your hearts;

¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore.

¹⁴ Now to such as these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold the Lord is coming with his holy myriads ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all their impious deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter things which impious sinners have uttered against him."

⁷ Behold he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him; and for him all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. Yes, be it so.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of the world are become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for the ages of the ages.

¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David; the bright and the morning star.