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
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
His horns
Numbers 23:22
God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Numbers 24:8
God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
Job 39:9
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
Psalm 29:6
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
Psalm 92:10
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 34:7
The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
He shall push
1 Kings 22:11
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
2 Chronicles 18:10
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
Psalm 44:5
Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
The ten thousands
Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
Numbers 26:34
These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:4
"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
General references
Numbers 1:32
Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;