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
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be recorded according to the birthright.
His horns
Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of a wild ox.
Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of a wild ox: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Job 39:9
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.
Psalm 29:6
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Psalm 92:10
But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of a wild ox: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 34:7
And the wild oxen 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 him horns of iron: and he said, Thus says the LORD, With these shall you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them.
2 Chronicles 18:10
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made himself horns of iron, and said, Thus says the LORD, With these you shall push Syria until they are consumed.
Psalm 44:5
Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
The ten thousands
Genesis 48:19
And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.
Numbers 26:34
These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry, and Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:4
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto you? O Judah, what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.
Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and bands of robbers plunder outside.
General references
Numbers 1:32
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;