Deuteronomy 33:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

Deuteronomy 33:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 32:31-32
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. …
Genesis 49:8
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Joshua 22:1-9
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, …
Genesis 49:3-4
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-7)

Here is, I. The blessing of Reuben. Though Reuben had lost the honour of his birthright, yet Moses begins with him; for we should not insult over those that are disgraced, nor desire to perpetuate marks of infamy upon any, though ever so justly fastened at first, Deut. 33:6. Moses desires and foretels, 1. The preserving of this tribe. Though a frontier tribe on the other side Jordan, yet, “ Let it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Let Reuben live, and not die--Although deprived of the honor and privileges of primogeniture, he was still to hold rank as one of the tribes of Israel. He was more numerous than several other tribes (Nu 1:21; 2:11). Yet gradually he sank into a mere nomadic tribe, which had enough to do merely “to live and not die.” Many eminent biblical scholars, resting on the most ancient and approved manusc…