* the kings.
  17:6,16  25:23  Nu 20:14  24:17,18  De 17:14-20  33:5,29 
  1Ch 1:43-50 
 * before there.
   Moses may here allude to the promise which God made to Jacob
   (ch. 35:11,) that kings should proceed from him; and here
   states that these kings reigned before that prophecy began to
   be fulfilled.