Genesis 49:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. ”

• Genesis 49:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Jacob Blesses His Sons 5. מכרה m e kêrāh , “weapon;” related: כיר kārar or כרה kārāh dig. “Device, design?” related: מכר mākar “sell,” in Arabic “take counsel. Habitat...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Blessing of Jacob. This poem had an independent origin, but if it was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances o...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  27. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf. Some of the Jews think the Benjamites are here condemned; because, when they had suffered lusts to prevail, like lawless robbers, among them, they were at...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

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• Genesis 49:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Benjamin— After so remarkable a benediction had been bestowed on Joseph, Benjamin, who was also tenderly loved of his father, might reasonably have expected to have heard that some great blessing w...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf. This tribe, whose settlement was to lie on...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jacob Blesses his Twelve Sons It is generally considered that in its present form, this chapter gives us indeed the last utterances of the dying patriarch respecting the future of his sons, but wi...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Benjamin. — With this description of their ancestor agrees the character of his race, which was the most spirited and warlike of all the tribes of Israel. It would be interesting to compare the no...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE BLESSINGS OF THE TRIBES Genesis 48:1-22 ; Genesis 49:1-33 JACOB'S blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Joseph Specially Blessed Genesis 49:13-27 The position of Zebulun and the following tribes in the land of promise is accurately foretold. Compare the allotments of Joshua 18:1-28 . Notice the...

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• Genesis 49:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Before his passing, Jacob, in forecasting the future of his sons, based what he had to say on what he had already seen in them. In some cases the allusions are difficult to follow, and the connection...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Isaiah 1:7 ; 1 Peter 2:6-7 Nothing can afford a higher proof that the Patriarch Jacob, in all that he here said, was guided by the spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection: because his pr...

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• Genesis 49:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf ,.... All the three Targums apply this prophecy to the priests offering the daily sacrifice, morning and evening, in the temple, which stood in the lot of Benjamin, an...

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• Genesis 49:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. Ver. 27. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf. ] There are that think that this ought t...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Benjamin shall raven as a wolf It is plain Jacob was guided in what he said by a spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection, else he would have spoken with more tenderness of his beloved son...

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• Genesis 49:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JACOB'S PROPHECY AS TO THE TWELVE TRIBES (vs.1-28) After a life of many failures and troubles, the last days of Jacob stand out in bright relief. His perception of God's ways became much more cle...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:   23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:   24 But hi...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He notes the warlike and fierce disposition and carriage of that tribe. Instances whereof we have Judges 3:15 , Judges 19:1 -20:48 1 Samuel 13:1-15 :35 . This may be understood, either of the sam...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning he will devour the prey and at even he will divide the spoil.” To a shepherd the ravenous wolf was a dreaded but awesome sight. He ate in the morning an...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 49:22 . Whose branches run over the wall.] “Transcend all the usual boundaries of a well-enclosed garden. Joseph is, in prospect, the twofold tribe that bursts the bounds...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Genesis 48 and 49 (with Deuteronomy 33 and Judges 5 ) Jacob's blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not co...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  l, 2. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last day. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 49:2 . Gather yourselves together. This phrase implies that they should come purified, and prepared for instruction. Genesis 49:3 . Reuben. Jacob here seems to enumerate the excellenci...

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• Genesis 49:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Zebulun. .. Issachar. .. Dan. .. Gad. .. Asher. .. Naphtali. .. Benjamin The blessings of Zebulun, &c. : Consider these blessings-- I. IN THEIR VARIETY. 1. Maritime power. 2. Husb...

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• Genesis 49:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 49:1 And Jacob (having closed his interview with Joseph and his two sons) called (by means of messengers) unto his sons ( i.e. the others who were then absent), a...

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• Genesis 49:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Prophecy upon Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin

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• Genesis 49:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  ravin. Genesis 35:18 Genesis 46:21 Deuteronomy 33:12 a wolf. Numbers 23:24 Judges 3:15-29 Judges 20:21 Judges 20:25 1 Samuel 11:4-11 1 Samuel 14:1 1 Samuel 15:35 1 Samuel 17:1-58...

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• Genesis 49:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf — It is plain, Jacob was guided in what he said by a spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection, else he would have spoken with more tenderness of his beloved s...

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