Genesis 49:10

The scepter does not turn aside from Judah, || And a lawgiver from between his feet, || Until his Seed comes; And His [is] the obedience of peoples.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

In Context

9A lion’s whelp [is] Judah, || For prey, my son, you have gone up; He has bent, he has crouched as a lion, || And as a lioness; who causes him to arise?

11Binding to the vine his donkey, || And to the choice vine the colt of his donkey, || He has washed in wine his clothing, || And in the blood of grapes his covering;

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Cross References

Numbers 21:18A well—princes have dug it, || Nobles of the people have prepared it, || With the lawgiver, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,

Numbers 24:19And [One] rules out of Jacob, || And has destroyed a remnant from the city.”

2 Samuel 7:13he builds a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom for all time.

1 Chronicles 12:24The sons of Judah, carrying buckler and spear, [are] six thousand and eight hundred, armed ones of the host.

Psalms 2:6“And I have anointed My King, || On Zion—My holy hill.”

Psalms 60:9Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:9-13

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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