Cross references

Numbers 23:24

Behold, the people rise like a lioness;

they rouse themselves like a lion,

not resting until they devour their prey

and drink the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 23:24 BSB

Numbers 23:24 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 49:27 (7 votes) and Genesis 49:9 (6 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 49 to Revelation 19.

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Which verses does Numbers 23:24 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

  2. Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

  3. God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

  4. I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

  5. On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.

  6. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

  7. Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.

  8. like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

  9. a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;

  10. For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

  11. Amos 3:83 votes
  12. Nahum 2:113 votes

Which verses point to Numbers 23:24?

The 10 strongest of 19.