13And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: …
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)Here is, I. The blessing of Benjamin, Deut. 33:12. Benjamin is put next to Levi, because the temple, where the priests’ work lay, was just upon the edge of the lot of this tribe; and it is put before Joseph because of the dignity of Jerusalem (part of which was in this tribe) above Samaria, which was in the tribe of Ephraim, and because Benjamin adhered to the house of David, and to the temple of…
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