Genesis 49:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Simeon and Levi — They stood next according to the order of birth: “Simeon and Levi” —
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Genesis 49:6
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O my soul, come not thou into their secret,.... Their cabinet counsels, combinations and conspiracies; this Jacob said, as abhorring the wicked counsel they had took of slaying the Shechemites; and lest any should think he was concerned in it, or connived at it, he expressed a detestation of the fact on his dying bed: the future tense may be put...
Genesis 49:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are brethren; They are very much like each other.
Genesis 49:6-7
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter...
Genesis 49:7
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce,.... It was sinful anger in the nature of it, and so criminal and detestable; it was strong, fierce, and furious in its operation and effects, and so justly cursed; not their persons, but their passions: and their wrath, for it was cruel; it issued in the cruel and barbarous slaughter of the inhabitants of...
Genesis 49:8
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise,.... His name signifies praise, and was given him by his mother, her heart being filled with praises to God for him, Genesis 29:35 and is here confirmed by his father on another account, because his brethren should praise him for many excellent virtues in him; and it appears, by instances already...
Genesis 49:8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judah, — Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: “Judah” — Gen_49:8. Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: They praised God for him, they praised God by him, they praised God in him; he is the type of Jesus, of whom we can say all this with great...
Genesis 49:8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: His name was praise, and such was his history to be, for David came of that tribe, and great David’s greater Son, whom it is our joy to praise. Gen_49:8. Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. While that was true of Judah, it is still more...
Genesis 49:9
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Judah is a lion's whelp,.... Or as one; the note of similitude being wanting, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech observe; he was comparable to a young lion for his strength, courage, and generosity; and it may refer to the infant state of this tribe in the times of the judges, who first went up against the Canaanites and overcame them, Jude 1:1 from the...
Genesis 49:9
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The coat of arms of Judah was a lion couchant, in the fullness of his strength, keeping still, waiting to spring upon his adversary. Our Lord Christ is such a lion today; “the Lion of the tribe of...
Genesis 49:9
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? Our Lord overcame his enemies even in the thicket of this world; and all power is given unto him now that he has “gone up” again into his glory. Let that man beware who would attack this Lion of the...
Genesis 49:10
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,.... Which some understand of the tribe, that Judah should not cease from being a tribe, or that it should continue a distinct tribe until the coming of the Messiah, who was to be of it, and was, and that it might appear he sprung from it; but this was not peculiar to this tribe, for the tribe of Benjamin...
Genesis 49:10
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The scepter 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. Jacob’s eyes were dim, but he could see a very long way; he could see to the coming of Christ, the Shiloh, the Pacificator, the Peace-maker; he could see that day when the Jews would cry, “ We have no...
Genesis 49:10
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The scepter 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. When did the dominion depart from Judah till the Lord Jesus came as the Seat One? And unto him, to this very day, the people gather, and more and more shall gather in the latter days.
Genesis 49:11
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine,.... Which may be understood either of the tribe of Judah, and signify that vines should grow in such plenty, and so large and strong, that a man might fasten his ass to one of them, and if it ate and destroyed it, it would give no great concern, since the country abounded...
Genesis 49:11-12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. They were to have a land in which would be milk for babes and wine for strong men; surely this land is “thy land, O Emmanuel!” What...
Genesis 49:11-12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice wine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. It was literally so with Judah, but it is gloriously as with our Lord to this day. It was his blood which yielded the juice of those rare...
Genesis 49:12
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
His eyes shall be red with wine,.... Signifying, not the intemperance of this tribe, and their immoderate use of wine, and the effect of it on them; but the goodness and generosity of their wine, that if drank plentifully of, and especially to excess, would have such an effect, see Proverbs 23:29 and, as applied to the Messiah, the antitype of...
Genesis 49:13
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea,.... Of the sea of Galilee, sometimes called the sea of Tiberias and of Gennesaret; and of the Mediterranean sea; and accordingly we find that the border of this tribe, when settled in the land of Canaan, was toward the sea, Joshua 19:10 and this was done, not at the discretion of Joshua, or at the...
Genesis 49:13
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his brother shall be unto Zidon. When the land was divided by lot, the lot was disposed by God to the complete fulfillment of Jacob’s prophecy. Many things may seem to be left to chance, but they are not, the hand of God still guides and controls. This blessing...