8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. …
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is, I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel ( Gen. 30:1 , 2 ), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister’s fruitfulness. Rebekah, the only wife of Isaac, was long childless, and yet we find no uneasiness between her and Isaac; but here, because Leah bears children,…
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