Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 33:7

7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah , and bring him unto his people : let his hands be sufficient for him , and be thou an help to him from his enemies .

(i. e.) God will hear his prayer for the accomplishment of those great things promised to that Tribe, Gen. 49. 8, 9, 10, 11. This implies the delayes and difficulties Iudah would meet with herein, which would drive him to his prayers, and that those prayers should be crowned with success.

Either 1. When he shall go forth to Battel against Gods and his Enemies and shall fall fiercely upon them, as was foretold, Gen. 49. 8, 9. bring him back with honour and victory and safety to his people, i. e. either to the rest of his Tribe who were left at home when their brethren went to Battel: or to his brethren the other Tribes of Israel. Or 2. When that Tribe shall go into captivity, let them not be always kept in captivity, as the ten Tribes are like to be, but do thou bring him again to his people. Or 3. As thou hast promised the gathering of the people to him, even to the Shiloh, who was to come out of his loyns, Gen. 49. 10. so do thou bring him, i. e. the Messias, who may be understood out of that parallel prophesie, and who may be here called Iudah, because he was come from him, as he is for that reason called David in divers places, to his people, i. e. to that people which thou hast given to him. Or 4. Bring him in, to wit, as Prince and Governour, as thou hast promised Gen. 49. to his people, i. e. to thy people of Israel, now to be reckoned as his people, because of their subjection to him. Or rather 5. Bring him in to his people, to that people which thou hast promised and given to him, i. e. to that portion of Land which thou hast allotted to him, settle him in his possession: the people or inhabitants being here put for the Land inhabited by them, as the Israelites are told they should possess the Nations or people of Canaan, Deut. 11. 23. and 12. 2. i. e. their Land, as it is explained, Deut. 17. 14. and 30. 18. for the people they were not to possess but to dispossess and to root out.

This Tribe shall be so numerous and potent and valiant that it shall suffice to defend it self without any aid either from forreign Nations or from other Tribes; as appeared when this Tribe alone was able to grapple with nine or ten▪ of the other Tribes.

Thou wilt preserve this Tribe in a special manner, so as his enemies shall not be able to ruine it, as they will do other Tribes, and that for the sake of the Messias who shall spring out of it.