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Prosperity Fuels Worship
Commentators explain that the "abundance of the seas" and "treasures of the sand" refer to the economic prosperity Zebulun and Issachar would enjoy through sea trade, fishing, and unique resources like sand for glassmaking. This material blessing from God was not an end in itself but was meant to lead them to offer "sacrifices of righteousness"—sincere and grateful worship at God's holy mountain.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 33:18–19
18th Century
Theologian
Zebulun possessed a spacious sea-shore and the fisheries of the Lake of Tiberias. Therefore, he was to thrive by commerce and to rejoice in his
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 33:19
19th Century
Bishop
They shall call the people to the mountain. —Or, they shall give the mountain-call to the peoples — i.e., they shall cal…
Charles Spurgeon
On Deuteronomy 33:19–22
19th Century
Preacher
And of Gad, he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad. God knows how to enlarge his people, give them more grace, more gifts, more opportu…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 33:19
17th Century
Pastor
They shall call the people unto the mountain
To the mountain of the house of the sanctuary, as all the three Targums…
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 33:6–23
17th Century
Minister
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…