Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
New American Standard Bible
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.
King James Version
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
Holman Bible
when the leaders of the people gathered
with the tribes of Israel.
International Standard Version
The LORD was king of Jeshurun when the leaders of the people all the tribes of Israel gathered together."
A Conservative Version
And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
American Standard Version
And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
Amplified
“The Lord was King in Jeshurun (Israel),
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.
Darby Translation
And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people And the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will be king in Jeshurun, in the gathering the heads of the people, he united together the tribes of Israel.
King James 2000
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [then] a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of [the] people, {united were the tribes of Israel}.
Modern King James verseion
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he was in the fullness of the king, and held the rulers of the people together, with the tribes of Israel.
NET Bible
The Lord was king over Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people assembled, the tribes of Israel together.
New Heart English Bible
He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus became he in, Jeshurun, a king, - When the heads of the people gathered them-selves together, As one man, the tribes of Israel. Reuben -
Webster
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were assembled.
World English Bible
He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel!
Interlinear
Ro'sh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 33:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Historical Review
4 Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. 5 And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. 6 Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
Genesis 36:31
And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.
Exodus 18:16
And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.
Exodus 18:19
Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:
Numbers 16:13-15
Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?
Numbers 23:21
He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them
Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
Judges 9:2
Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.