Numbers 24:17

Balaam foresees a star and scepter rising out of Israel who will strike Moab and Israel's enemies. This is a key messianic prophecy of a coming royal deliverer.

Cross-references · 29

• Rev 22:16“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
• Luke 1:32–33He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
• Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
• Rev 1:7Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
• Ps 45:6Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
• 2 Pet 1:19We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
• Zech 10:4The cornerstone will come from Judah, the tent peg from him, as well as the battle bow and every ruler together.
• Matt 2:2–9asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
• 1 Chr 18:2David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to David and brought him tribute.
• Heb 1:8But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
• Job 19:25–27But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
• Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
• 2 Sam 8:2David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.
• Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
• Jer 48:45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
• Jude 1:14–15Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
• Ps 110:2The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
• 2 Kgs 3:5But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 3:26–27When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.
• Isa 15:1This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
• Ps 72:8–11May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
• Ps 78:70–72He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
• Gen 4:25–26And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
• Gen 5:3–29When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
• 1 Sam 14:38Therefore Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the troops, and let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.
• Num 21:29Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

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