Deuteronomy 33:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

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

וַיְהִ֥י בִישֻׁר֖וּן מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם יַ֖חַד שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

He prophesies that the One who has currently selected Israel will shortly extend His call to all nations, becoming the Sovereign and Ruler of both the Israelites and the other peoples. For it is written, ‘There shall be a prince in the beloved, to the people gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Deut 32:15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
Judg 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.
Ex 18:19But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:
Judg 9:2Speak 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.
Num 23:21There 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.
Gen 36:31And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:
Ex 18:16And 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.
Num 16:13Is 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?