Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 33:19

19 They shall call the people unto the mountain , there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness : for they shall suck of the abundance of the sea , and of treasures hid in the sand .

Either 1. Zebulun and Issachar. Or rather 2. Zebulun onely, as the following matter shews, and it was Zebulun that Moses takes more special notice of ver. 18. bringing in Issachar onely by the by in conjunction with him or in opposition to him. And so having dispatched Issachar in two words, he returns to Zebulun, a more active Tribe.

(i. e.) The Gentiles, either those of Galilee, which was called Galilee of the Gentiles, who were their Neighbours, or people of other nations, with whom they had commerce, which they endeavoured to improve in perswading them to the true God and his Worship and Service.

(i. e.) To the Temple, which Moses knew was to be seated upon a mountain.

(i. e.) Such as God requires and Righteousness obligeth them to offer. Their trafficking abroad with Heathen nations shall not make them forget or neglect their duty at home, nor shall their distance from the place of sacrifices hinder them from coming to it to discharge that duty.

They shall grow rich by the traffick of the sea, and their riches shall not make them the worse as they do others, but they shall consecrate themselves and their riches to the service of God.

Such pretious things as either 1. Are contained in the sand of the sea and Rivers, in which sometimes there is mixed a considerable quantity of Gold and Silver. Or 2. Such as grow in the Sea or are fetched from the sandy bottom of it, as pearls, coral, ambergrease, &c. Or 3. Such as being cast into the Sea by shipwrack are cast up upon the shore by the workings of the Sea, and thence taken either by merchants, or by the people that live upon the Sea-Coast.