Bible Verses about โtribesโ
The Bible contains 41 verses about tribes across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ
โJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.โ
โNow these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.โ
โThe stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.โ
โThe scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.โ
โThe brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.โ
โHear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.โ
โ"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."โ
โThere they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:โ
โ"Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.โ
โJudah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?โ
โBinding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.โ
โHis eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.โ
โeven by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.โ
โBoiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.โ
โAll these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.โ
โHe instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,โ
โ"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.โ
โDan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.โ
โJacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.โ
โAssemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.โ
โ"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.โ
โ"Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.โ
โMy soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.โ
โCursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.โ
โ"Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.โ
โHe saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.โ
โ"Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.โ
โI have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.โ
โ"A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.โ
โ"Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.โ
โ"Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.โ
โ"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.โ
โThe archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:โ
โBut his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),โ
โThe blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.โ
โin the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.โ
โthe field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."โ
โWhen Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.โ
โSo shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance."โ
