“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his. The scepter that will not depart from Judah until he comes to whom it belongs is the most explicit messianic promise in Genesis. Numbers 24:17 echoes the scepter language; Luke 1:32-33 applies it to David's greater son. The application: the covenant promise of a coming king from Judah — whose right it is to rule, to whom the nations will give obedience — is the promise that runs from Genesis 49:10 through the entire prophetic tradition.
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