American Standard Version
Deuteronomy 33:5
5And he was king in Jeshurun,When the heads of the people were gathered,All the tribes of Israel together.
Deuteronomy 33:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
- New International Version (NIV)He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And He was King in Jeshurun, When the leaders of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
Context of Deuteronomy 33:5
3Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; Every oneshall receive of thy words. 4Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. 6Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few. 7And this isthe blessingof Judah: and he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.
Read all of Deuteronomy 33Deuteronomy 33:5 word by word
וַיְהִ֥י בִישֻׁר֖וּן מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם יַ֖חַד שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 33:5
- Genesis 36:31And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
- Exodus 18:16when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
- Numbers 16:13is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?
- Judges 8:22Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also; for thou hast saved us out of the hand of Midian.
- Judges 9:2Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
- Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 33:5
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5He was king - i. e., not Moses but the Lord became king.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-29On the day before he died, Jacob blessed his 12 sons (Genesis 49:1–28). Many years later, Moses also blessed these same sons. By that time, they had become large and powerful tribes. Moses, like Jacob, spoke as a founding father of the nation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-281. Moses the man of God--This was a common designation of a prophet (1Sa 2:27; 9:6), and it is here applied to Moses, when, like Jacob, he was about to deliver ministerially before his death, a prophetic benediction to Israel.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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