Egyptian Staff
The Staff of Inheritance
This Egyptian was from the time of Amunmai Thori II, around two hundred years or so before Moses. Ancient Egyptian Tomb Walls contain pictures of important men represented with a long staff which marks his rank, head of a family and great landowner. Fragments have been discovered revealing these rods with hieroglyphic inscriptions. It is interesting that God anointed the staff or rod of Moses to lead the people of Israel to the promised land..
"But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."- Ex 14:16-17
"Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion,
be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and
shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner
of Egypt.
Isaiah 10:24
The Bible Mentions the Word "Staff"
2 Samuel
23:21 - And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the
Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a
staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,
and slew him with his own spear.
Judges 6:21
- Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff
that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened
cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the
flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed
out of his sight.
1
Chronicles 11:23 - And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great]
stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear
like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff,
and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with
his own spear.
Isaiah 3:1
- For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the
whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 Samuel
3:29 - Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his
father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one
that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a
staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
Isaiah
28:27 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the
cummin with a rod.
Ezekiel
5:16 - When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of
famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will
send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and
will break your staff of bread:
Leviticus 26:26 - [And] when I have broken the staff
of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they
shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat,
and not be satisfied.
Isaiah
10:24 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my
people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff
against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
2 Kings
18:21 - Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff
of this bruised reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it
will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt
unto all that trust on him.
Isaiah 36:6
- Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed,
on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
2 Kings
4:31 - And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the face of the child; but [there was] neither
voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told
him, saying, The child is not awaked.
1 Samuel
17:40 - And he took his staff in his hand, and
chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a
shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in
his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
Ezekiel
4:16 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will
break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment:
Isaiah 10:5
- O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is mine indignation.
Isaiah
10:15 - Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that
lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up
[itself, as if it were] no wood.
Ezekiel
14:13 - Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by
trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it,
and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and
will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
2 Samuel
21:19 - And there was again a battle in Gob with the
Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite,
slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff
of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.
1 Samuel
17:7 - And the staff of his spear [was] like a
weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of
iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
1
Chronicles 20:5 - And there was war again with the
Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of
Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a
weaver's beam.
Genesis
32:10 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and
of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with
my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am
become two bands.
Genesis
38:18 - And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff
that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her,
and she conceived by him.
Numbers
13:23 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down
from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
Isaiah
30:32 - And [in] every place where the grounded staff
shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with
tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
Hosea 4:12
- My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff
declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them]
to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Genesis
38:25 - When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father
in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with child: and
she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.
Exodus
12:11 - And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;
and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
Exodus
21:19 - If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his
staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall
pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be
thoroughly healed.
Numbers
22:27 - And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell
down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the
ass with a staff.
2 Samuel
23:7 - But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced
with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be
utterly burned with fire in the [same] place.