Treasury of Scripture
the kings.
Genesis 17:6,16 And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you...
Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from your bowels...
Numbers 20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus said your brother Israel...
Numbers 24:17,18 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob...
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say...
Deuteronomy 33:5,29 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together...
1 Chronicles 1:43-50 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor...
before there. Moses may here allude to the promise which God made to Jacob (ch.
Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of you...
,) that kings should proceed from him; and here states that these kings reigned before that prophecy began to be fulfilled.