Deuteronomy 33:5 BSB

Deuteronomy 33:5

So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, when the tribes of Israel came together.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

KJV

And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

He was king in Jeshurun - Moses was their king not in title, but in reality, being under God, their supreme governor, and law giver. Gathered together - When the princes and people met together for the management of public affairs, Moses was owned by them as their king and lawgiver.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֥י	vay.Hi	and he was	H1961 →
בִישֻׁר֖וּן	vi.shu.Run	in Jeshurun	H3484 →
מֶ֑לֶךְ	Me.lekh	king	H4428 →
בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙	be.hit.'a.Sef	when gathered themselves	H622 →
רָ֣אשֵׁי	Ra.shei	[the] chiefs of	H7218 →
עָ֔ם	'Am	[the] people	H5971 →
יַ֖חַד	Ya.chad	together	H3162 →
שִׁבְטֵ֥י	shiv.Tei	[the] tribes of	H7626 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:8
  You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 12:15
  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
- Proverbs 14:12
  There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Judges 21:25
  In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 16:2
  All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Through
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 31:20
  When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to…
- Hosea 13:6
  When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- Acts 28:27
  For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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