Deuteronomy 33:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Satisfied with favor - Compare Genesis 49:21 and note. The west and the south - i. e., taking the words as referring not to geographical position but to natural characteristics, “the sea an...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou (p) the west and the south. (p) Meaning, near the sea.
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33. The Blessing of Moses. Of this poem (quite unconnected with the context) the following statements may be made: ( a) It was composed during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786-...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Naphtali. Compare Genesis 49:21 , and Joshua 19:32-39 .
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. And of Naphtali he said. He predicts that God would deal bountifully towards these two tribes; for to the first a fertile district would be allotted towards “the west and the south.” Wha...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south. O Naphtali, satisfied with favor - Though this may refer to th...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 23. And of Naphtali he said — Jacob appears to have promised the Naphtalites a delightful country, under the image of a fine spreading tree. And here Moses predicts, in clear terms, that th...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south. Of Naphtali he said. The pleasant and fertile territor...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Blessing of Moses This chapter contains the last words or 'swan-song' of Moses. Immediately before his death he takes farewell of the people, and blesses each of the tribes in turn, as Jacob h...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

(B) THE BLESSING OF MOSES Deuteronomy 33:1-29 Besides the farewell speeches and the farewell song, we have in this chapter yet another closing utterance attributed to Moses. Here, as in the cas...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Israel's Happy Future Promised Deuteronomy 33:18-29 Zebulun and Issachar, sons of Leah, were neighbors in Canaan, and, being on the seaboard, became wealthy by commerce. The calling of the...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the record of the final words of Moses to the nation. They also take the form of a song. Often he had set before the people cursing and blessing His last words were of blessing only. Fi...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is much of gospel in this blessing of Naphtali. And no doubt, Moses had an eye to spiritual things in his prophecy of it. And what is it to be full with the blessing of JEHOVAH, but, in his thr...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And of Naphtali he said ,.... The tribe of Naphtali, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: O Naphtali, satisfied with favour ; with the favour of men, which to have is a great blessing; and as...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south. Ver. 23. Satisfied with favour, and full, &c. ] Fulne...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Satisfied with favour With the favour of God. That only is the favour that satisfies the soul. They are happy indeed that have the favour of God; and they shall have it that place their satisfactio...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BLESSING OF THE TRIBES (vs.1-29) Though Deuteronomy is a book largely of admonition, yet all admonition is finished by the end of Chapter 32:47, and Chapter 33 beautifully closes God's messag...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the L ORD : possess t...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With favour; either, 1. With God's favour, as it follows; or, 2. With men's favour or good-will, his carriage being peaceable, courteous, and obliging, as is intimated, Genesis 49:21 , accor...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied (satiated) with favour, And full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west (or ‘the sea' - yam) and the south (or ‘t...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .—Moses now performs the last great act of life and blesses the tribes of Israel. “The blessing opens with a solemn conclusion of the covenant and giving of the law at Sinai, by which...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:1 . Moses blessed Israel. Moses, like Jacob, died distinctly blessing the tribes of Israel, and finished his course in a manner worthy of himself. The tribe of Simeon is here omitte...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

And of Naphtali he said. Naphtali It may seem to anyone who looks upon a map of Canaan as divided amongst the tribes, that this definition of locality is far enough from corresponding with the...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION MOSES ' BLESSING . Before ascending Mount Nebo, to take a view of the land he was not permitted to cuter and then to die, Moses took farewell of the people he had so long guided an...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Blessing of Moses. As the aged patriarch Jacob laid his blessing upon his sons in the form of prophecies, so Moses, before being gathered to his people, spoke a prophetic blessing upon the pe...
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 49:21 ; Isaiah 9:1 ; Isaiah 9:2 ; Jeremiah 31:14 ; Joshua 19:32-39 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Matthew 4:13 ; Matthew 4:16 ; Psalms 36:8 ; Psalms 90:14
Deuteronomy 33:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Satisfied with favour — With the favour of God. That only is the favour that satisfies the soul. They are happy indeed that have the favour of God; and they shall have it, that place their satisfac...

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes