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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23

There is much of gospel in this blessing of Naphtali. And no doubt, Moses had an eye to spiritual things in his prophecy of it. And what is it to be full with the blessing of JEHOVAH, but, in his three-fold character of Person, to enjoy the FATHER's love, the Redeemer's grace, and the HOLY GHOST's fellowship? Reader! may it be your portion and mine, to have this fulness, and we shall then possess a Naphtali's portion. It may not be unacceptable to the Reader, to add, that Capernaum, of which we hear so much in our LORD'S days, belonged to Naphtali.

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See also Deuteronomy 33:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 33:23. _O NAPHTALI, SATISFIED WITH FAVOUR_] Though this may refer to the very great fertility of the country that fell to this tribe, yet certainly something more is intended. Scarc...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SATISFIED WITH FAVOR - Compare Genesis 49:21 and note. THE WEST AND THE SOUTH - i. e., taking the words as referring not to geographical position but to natural characteristics, “the sea and the sunny...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE BLESSING OF MOSES Chapter S 32:44-33:29 _ 1. Introduction (Deuteronomy 32:44)_ 2. Jehovah's manifestation (Deuteronomy 33:1) 3. The blessing of Reuben, Judah and Levi (D

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 33. THE BLESSING OF MOSES. Of this poem (quite unconnected with the context) the following statements may be made: (_a)_ It was composed during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786- 74...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NAPHTALI. Compare Genesis 49:21, and Joshua 19:32....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _as thou hast_ FREELY _vowed unto the Lord thy God_ LXX _to God_. _which thou hast promised_, etc.] Attached awkwardly to preceding, and probably a gloss. 24, 25 ( 25, 26). Of Use at Need of Others...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Blessing Proper 6  R e" ubén, may he live and not die, Though few be his men....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    ( 22 24). Of Vows. A vow once made shall be paid without delay. God requires it, neglect is a sin (Deuteronomy 33:21). To forbear to vow is no sin, but every uttered promise of this kind must be obser...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 23. _AND OF NAPHTALI HE SAID_— Jacob appears to have promised the Naphtalites a delightful country, under the image of a fine spreading tree. And here Moses predicts, in clear terms, that their...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. BLESSINGS PRONOUNCED UPON THE TWELVE TRIBES (Deuteronomy 33:6-25) It will be noticed that the tribe of Simeon is not mentioned in this list. This was because of their father's anger, cruelty, and d...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND OF NAPHTALI HE SAID, O NAPHTALI, SATISFIED WITH FAVOUR, AND FULL WITH THE BLESSING OF THE LORD: POSSESS THOU THE WEST AND THE SOUTH._ Of Naphtali he said. The pleasant and fertile territory of t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    33:23 south. (c-23) Or 'the sea and Darom.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSING OF MOSES This chapter contains the last words or 'swan-song' of Moses. Immediately before his death he takes farewell of the people, and blesses each of the tribes in turn, as Jacob had...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Naphtali touched the Sea of Galilee on the E. and included some of the richest land and most beautiful scenery in Palestine. The Plain of Gennesaret was specially luxuriant. Josephus calls it the 'amb...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 33 V1 This is the *blessing that Moses, God’s *prophet, gave to the *Israelites. Moses did this...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ לְ נַפְתָּלִ֣י אָמַ֔ר נַפְתָּלִי֙ שְׂבַ֣ע...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    (B) THE BLESSING OF MOSES Deuteronomy 33:1 Besides the farewell speeches and the farewell song, we have in this chapter yet another closing utterance attributed to Moses. Here, as in the case of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ISRAEL'S HAPPY FUTURE PROMISED Deuteronomy 33:18 _ Zebulun_ and _Issachar,_ sons of Leah, were neighbors in Canaan, and, being on the seaboard, became wealthy by commerce. The calling of the peoples...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the record of the final words of Moses to the nation. They also take the form of a song. Often he had set before the people cursing and blessing His last words were of blessing only. Firs...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou (p) the west and the south. (p) Meaning, near the sea....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The sea. The lake of Genesareth. (Challoner) --- South. That lake forms the southern extremity of the tribe of Nephthali. (Haydock) --- The Mediterranean, and the countries south of Palestine, are co...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._And of Naphtali he said. _He predicts that God would deal bountifully towards these two tribes; for to the first a fertile district would be allotted towards “the west and the south.” What he decl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have also the blessings of this man of God, pronounced over the people before his death (chap. 33). The blessings of Jacob were more historical regarding the future. Here they are rather relationsh...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND OF NAPHTALI HE SAID,.... The tribe of Naphtali, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: O NAPHTALI, SATISFIED WITH FAVOUR; with the favour of men, which to have is a great blessing; and as he g...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south._ Ver. 23. _Satisfied with favour, and full, &c._] Fulness of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Satisfied with favour_ With the favour of God. That only is the favour that satisfies the soul. They are happy indeed that have the favour of God; and they shall have it that place their satisfaction...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Maiestie of God. 6 The blessings of the twelue Tribes. 26 The excellency of Israel. 1 AND this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BLESSING OF MOSES. As the aged patriarch Jacob laid his blessing upon his sons in the form of prophecies, so Moses, before being gathered to his people, spoke a prophetic blessing upon the peopl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, with the good will of the Lord, AND FULL WITH THE BLESSING OF THE LORD; POSSESS THOU THE WEST AND THE SOUTH, a region which combined the adva...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSING OF THE TRIBES (vs.1-29) Though Deuteronomy is a book largely of admonition, yet all admonition is finished by the end of Chapter 32:47, and Chapter 33 beautifully closes God's message f...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-23 The order in which the tribes are here blessed, is not the same as is observed elsewhere. The blessing of Judah may refer to the whole tribe in general, or to David as a type of Christ. Moses la...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH FAVOUR; either, 1. With God's favour, as it follows; or, 2. With men's favour or good-will, his carriage being peaceable, courteous, and obliging, as is intimated, GENESIS 49:21, according to th...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death" It is full of interest and comfort to find that the last words of the lawgiver were words o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 33:23 Naphtali H5321 said H559 (H8804) Naphtali H5321 satisfied H7649 favor H7522 full H4392 blessing...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied (satiated) with favour, And full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west (or ‘the sea' - yam) and the south (or ‘the sout...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses' blessing upon the tribes. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is a very desirable thing to have an interest in the prayers of those who are about to depart for heaven. KEY WORD:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 33:1. _Moses blessed Israel._ Moses, like Jacob, died distinctly blessing the tribes of Israel, and finished his course in a manner worthy of himself. The tribe of Simeon is here omitted....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And of Naphtali he said._ NAPHTALI It may seem to anyone who looks upon a map of Canaan as divided amongst the tribes, that this definition of locality is far enough from corresponding with the fact...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 33:1 There is no mention of Simeon in the list of tribes, perhaps because the tribe was going to be scattered (Genesis 49:7) and absorbed by Judah....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 33:23 THE LAKE. Naphtali’s land bordered the Sea of Galilee. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now performs the last great act of life and blesses the tribes of Israel. “The blessing opens with a solemn conclusion of the covenant and giving of the law at Sinai, by which th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MOSES' BLESSING. Before ascending Mount Nebo, to take a view of the land he was not permitted to cuter and then to die, Moses took farewell of the people he had so long guided and ruled, b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter thirty-three, Now this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel just before he died. And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir; he shin...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 49:21; Isaiah 9:1; Isaiah 9:2; Jeremiah 31:14; Joshua 19:32;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Satisfied with favour — With the favour of God. That only is the favour that satisfies the soul. They are happy indeed that have the favour of God; and they shall have it, that place their satisfactio...

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