Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The LORD was king of Jeshurun when the leaders of the people all the tribes of Israel gathered 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came 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 commanded with the Law, an inheritance for the community of Jacob. 5 The LORD was king of Jeshurun when the leaders of the people all the tribes of Israel gathered together." 6 "May Reuben live and not die, though his numbers are few."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15
Jacob dined until satisfied; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. He grew fat, coarse, and gross, so that he abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock that was his salvation.
Genesis 36:31
This is a list of the kings who ruled the territory of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelis.
Exodus 18:16
When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a person and his neighbor, and make known the statutes of God and his instructions."
Exodus 18:19
Now listen to me. I'll advise you, and may God be with you. You are to represent the people before God and bring the disputes to God.
Numbers 16:13-15
Is it such an insignificant thing that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now you're trying to make yourself be a prince and rule over us, aren't you?
Numbers 23:21
He has not responded to iniquity in Jacob or gazed at mischief in Israel. The LORD his God is with them, and the triumphant cry of a king is among them.
Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel asked Gideon, "Rule over us you, your son, and your grandsons because you have delivered us from Midian's domination."
Judges 9:2
"Ask all the "lords" of Shechem, "What's better for you? That 70 men, each of them Jerubbaal's sons, rule over you? Or that one man rule over you?' Keep in mind that I'm like your own close relative."
Judges 17:6
Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.