Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 27:13

13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse ; Reuben, Gad and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali :

He saith to bless the people, ver. 12. but here onely to curse, not expressing whom, either because he was loath to mention the people as objects of the curse; or because he presumed and hoped that though some particular persons might deserve the curse, yet the generality of the people would keep out of the reach of it: or to intimate, that though the blessing was peculiar to the people of Israel, yet the curse was indefinite and common to all nations, as may appear from the particular sins here numbred which are such as made the Gentiles guilty and abominable to God, as is elsewhere affirmed. See Lev. 18. 28.

Four of these are the children of the bondwomen, to shew that the curse belongs to those of servile and disingenuous spirits and carriages to God. With these are joyned Reuben, who by his shameful sin fell from his dignity, Gen. 49. 4. and Zabulon, as the youngest of Leahs children, who was necessarily to be joyned with those, that the numbers might be equal.

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