Genesis 49:8

Judah, your brothers will praise you. 1 Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. 1 Your father's sons will bow down before you. 1

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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.

In Context

7May their anger be cursed, 1 for it was fierce—and their fury, for it was cruel. 1 I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. 1

9Judah is a lion's cub. My son, 1 you have gone up from your victims. 1 He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, like a lioness. 1 Who would dare to awaken him? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 29:35She conceived again and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she called his name Judah; then she stopped having children.

Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 46:12The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers 10:14The camp under the banner of Judah's descendants went out first, moving out their individual armies. Nahshon son of Amminadab led Judah's army.

Deuteronomy 33:7This is the blessing for Judah. Moses said: 1 Listen, Yahweh, to the voice of Judah, 1 and bring him to his people again. 1 Fight for him; 1 be a help against his enemies.

Joshua 15:20This was the inheritance of the tribe of Judah, clan by clan.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:6-8

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and… Read the whole commentary →

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