Smite through the loins — Rather, strike the loins, that is, the seat of their strength.

Ble , Lord, his substance. —This petition is consistent with the enactment that Levi should have no land. But a …

Those who have God near them are safe indeed. There is no protection in such a world as this like constant communion with God.

We have to go…

Bless, Lord, his substance. This supplication appears to have been intended tacitly to provide against the poverty that awaited the Levite…

Bless, Lord, his substance
Which lay in tithes, firstfruits for the priests and Levites had no share in the division of the la…

The order in which the tribes are blessed here is not the same as is observed elsewhere. The blessing of Judah may refer to the whole tribe in gene…