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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Naphtali is a hind let loose: — The type of what a Christian minister should be,— indeed, what every Christian worker should be,— “a hind let loose,” one who can say with David, “O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.” Gen_49:21. He giveth goodly words. He has liberty in speech,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Joseph is a fruitful bough,.... Or as one, like the bough or branch of a tree laden with fruit, as he was with children; one of which he called Ephraim from his fruitfulness, and both his sons became numerous, and the heads of two tribes in Israel; and with other temporal fruits and blessings, as riches, honour, c. and especially with the fruits...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Joseph — Ah, now the patriarch comes to his beloved Joseph, and here the old man lingers long, longer than upon any other of his sons: “Joseph” — Gen_49:22. Is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The Hebrew puts it, “Joseph is a son of fruits, even a son of fruits by a well; whose daughters run over...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; — Where he can suck up abundant nutriment,— Gen_49:22. Whose branches run over the wall: He does more than he is expected to do; nothing seems to content him, his “branches run over the wall.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him. His brethren who grieved him with their ill usage, shot out bitter words against him, and hated him for his dreams, and because his father loved him; and they could not speak peaceably to him, they mocked at him, conspired to kill him, stripped him of his clothes, cast him into a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hand were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Joseph is a type of him who is both the Shepherd and the Stone to us, the Shepherd who defends us, provides for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, You know how sorely Joseph was persecuted by his brethren, yet how the Lord was with him in all his troubles. It appears from these words that he was himself an archer, and that he was not in a hurry to shoot his arrows; his bow remained still. It...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But his bow abode in strength,.... For as his enemies were archers, and had bows and arrows, so had he, and repelled force by force; but then his bow and arrows were of a different sort, the virtues and graces that he was possessed of, as innocence and integrity, chastity, fortitude, wisdom, prudence and patience, faith, hope, and the like, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the arms of his hands — Not only his hands, but the arms of his hands —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee,.... The same with the mighty God of Jacob, by whom his hands had been made strong, and he would be still helped, protected, and defended against his powerful enemies; and by whom Christ, the antitype, was helped as man and Mediator against his enemies, and to do all the work he engaged in; and by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors,.... Jacob's blessings were greater and more numerous, both those which he himself had, and bestowed upon his offspring, than those that Abraham and Isaac had, he having more children than they, and blessings for everyone of them; whereas they each of them had but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf,.... All the three Targums apply this prophecy to the priests offering the daily sacrifice, morning and evening, in the temple, which stood in the lot of Benjamin, and dividing what was left, and eating it. But it respects the tribe itself, compared to a wolf for its fortitude, courage, and valour, as well as for its...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,.... The twelve sons of Jacob before mentioned were heads of twelve tribes, who were afterwards seated, and had their part in the land of Canaan; there were indeed thirteen tribes, two springing from Joseph; but then the tribe of Levi had no part in the land of Canaan, which was divided into twelve parts;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the came that is in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he charged them, and said unto them,.... The same charge he had given to Joseph he here renews, and lays it upon his sons, who were everyone of them to go along with Joseph to bury him in Canaan: I [am] to be gathered unto my people; the people of God, the spirits of just men made perfect, the souls of all the saints who before this time had...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,.... This is so exactly described, that there might be no mistake about the place, see Genesis 23:17: which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place; this is observed if any of the successors of Ephron, or any...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife,.... Abraham buried Sarah there himself, and his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, buried him there: there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; we have no other account of the death of Rebekah, and her burial, but here; it is probable she died before Isaac, and that Isaac buried her in this cave; and here...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is there, was from the children of Heth. Which is repeated for the certainty of it, and that it might be taken notice of, that both the field and cave were bought by Abraham of Ephron the Hittite, and that the children of Heth were witnesses of the bargain, and of the payment of the money, and by...