6Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. …
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.
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, …
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: …
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…
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