Deuteronomy 33:5
Good News Translation
The LORD became king of his people Israel when their tribes and leaders were gathered together.

New Revised Standard Version
There arose a king in Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people assembled— the united tribes of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Then you and your leaders made the LORD your king.

New American Bible
A king arose in Jeshurun when the chiefs of the people assembled, and the tribes of Israel united.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

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Genesis 36:31 And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

Exodus 18:16,19 And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. . . .

Numbers 16:13-15 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us? . . .

Judges 8:22 And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian.

Judges 9:2 Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.

Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.

Jeshurun

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Context
Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes
4Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob. 5He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.6Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.…
Cross References
Numbers 23:21
There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

Isaiah 44:2
Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have chosen.

Deuteronomy 33:4
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