Deuteronomy 33:5

A Historical Review

⁴ A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob. ⁵ And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel! ⁶ Let Reuben live, and not die, And let his men be a number.

As One Man

People of Israel

Tribes of Israel

Israel

Jeshurun

Reuben

Deuteronomy 32:15

And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

Genesis 36:31

And these are the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.

Exodus 18:16

when they have a matter, it hath come unto me, and I have judged between a man and his neighbour, and made known the statutes of God, and His laws.'

Exodus 18:19

'Now, hearken to my voice, I counsel thee, and God is with thee: be thou for the people over-against God, and thou hast brought in the things unto God;

Numbers 16:13-15

is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us?

Numbers 23:21

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor hath He seen perverseness in Israel; Jehovah his God is with him, And a shout of a king is in him.

Judges 8:22

And the men of Israel say unto Gideon, 'Rule over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, for thou hast saved us from the hand of Midian.'

Judges 9:2

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the masters of Shechem, Which is good for you -- the ruling over you of seventy men (all the sons of Jerubbaal), or the ruling over you of one man? -- and ye have remembered that I am your bone and your flesh.'

Judges 17:6

in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.