Genesis 49:8

Judah, as for thee, thy brethren shall praise thee when thy hand is on the neck of thy foes,—The sons of thy father, shall bow them-selves down to thee:

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In The King James Version

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

7Accursed, be their anger, because fierce, And their wrath because cruel,—I divide them in Jacob, And I disperse them in Israel.

9A lion’s whelp, is Judah, From the prey, my son hast thou come up! He hath stooped—hath crouched As a lion—or as a lioness, Who shall rouse him?

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Cross References

Genesis 29:35And she conceived again and bare a son, and said This time, will I praise Yahweh, For which cause, she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

Genesis 42:6Now, Joseph—he, it was, that was in power over the land, he, it was that was selling corn to all the people of the land,—so Joseph’s brethren came in, and bowed themselves down to him, with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 46:12And the sons of Judah,—Er and Onan and Shelah, and Perez and Zerah,—but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul;

Numbers 10:14So the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set forward first, by their hosts, and over his own host, was Nahshon, son of Amminadab;

Deuteronomy 33:7And, this, is for Judah, when he said, Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, That unto his own people, thou wouldst bring him home,—Let, his own hands, suffice him, And, a helper from his adversaries, do thou become.

Joshua 15:20This, is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah, by their families.

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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