the kings.

Genesis 17:6, 16
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. . . .

Genesis 25:23
and He declared to her: "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

Numbers 20:14
From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, "This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Numbers 24:17, 18
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:14-20
When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us, " . . .

Deuteronomy 33:5, 29
So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, together with the tribes of Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 1:43-50
These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah. . . .

before there.

Genesis 35:11
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation--even a company of nations--shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.