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Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 33:23

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Deuteronomy33:23

23 And of Naptali he said, O Naptali satisfied with favour , and full with the blessing of the LORD : possess thou the west and the south .

Either 1. With Gods favour, as it follows: Or 2. With mens favour or good will, his carriage being peaceable, courteous and obliging, as is intimated, Gen. 49. 21. according to the common Translation, see the notes there.

(i. e.) Seated in a pleasant and fertile and happy soil, such as Galilee, (in which their share lay) eminently was, as Iosephus and others report.

Or, the Sea and the South. This is to be understood of the places, that his lot should fall there, for he was rather in the East and North of the Land, but of the pleasures and commodities of the West or of the Sea, which were conveyed to him from his neighbour Zebulun, and of the South, i. e. from the southern tribes and parts of Canaan, which were brought to him down the River Iordan, and both sorts of commodities were given him in exchange for the fruits of his rich soil which he had in great abundance.

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