Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
The firstling
He shall push
The ten thousands
General references
Bible References
The firstling
1 Chronicles 5:1
And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,
His horns
Numbers 23:22
God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.
Numbers 24:8
God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo. He shall consume the nations his enemies, and break their bones, and with his arrows shall smite them in pieces.
Job 39:9
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
Psalm 29:6
And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.
Psalm 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 34:7
And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
He shall push
1 Kings 22:11
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.
2 Chronicles 18:10
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.
Psalm 44:5
Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
The ten thousands
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become the fulness of nations.
Numbers 26:34
These are the families of Manasseh; and those that were numbered of them, fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers assaileth without.
General references
Numbers 1:32
Of the sons of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: