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Darby's French Translation

Deutéronome 33:20

Et de Gad il dit: Béni soit celui qui élargit Gad. Il habite comme une lionne, et il déchire le bras, même le sommet de la tête.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Gad;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gad, the Tribe of;   Lion, the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy;   Gad;   Simeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gad (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crown;   Gad;   Targums;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gad;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crown;   Gad (1);   Head;   Pate;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gad;   Lion;   Simḥat Torah;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et de Gad il dit: B�ni soit celui qui met Gad au large! Il repose comme un lion, et il d�chire bras et t�te;
Louis Segond (1910)
Sur Gad il dit: B�ni soit celui qui met Gad au large! Gad repose comme une lionne, Il d�chire le bras et la t�te.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Il dit aussi, touchant GAD : B�ni soit celui qui fait �largir Gad; il habite comme un vieux lion, et il d�chire bras et t�te.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blessed: Genesis 9:26, Genesis 9:27, Joshua 13:8, Joshua 13:10, Joshua 13:24-28, 1 Chronicles 4:10, 1 Chronicles 12:8, 1 Chronicles 12:37, 1 Chronicles 12:38, Psalms 18:19, Psalms 18:36

he dwelleth: 1 Chronicles 5:18-21, 1 Chronicles 12:8-14

teareth: Micah 5:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:11 - she Genesis 46:16 - sons of Genesis 49:19 - General Numbers 23:24 - as a great Psalms 7:2 - like Jeremiah 2:16 - have broken the crown

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And of Gad he said,.... The tribe of Gad, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem:

blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad; that is, the Lord, to whom the praise and glory were to be given, who had appointed to Gad a large inheritance on the other side Jordan, and had settled him in it, and which became larger by the conquest of the Hagarites, and others, 1 Chronicles 5:18;

he dwelleth as a lion; bold and courageous, secure, and without fear of any of his enemies, though near him, on his borders, as the Moabites and Ammonites were; of the same spirit and temper were the men of the tribe of Gad in the times of David, 1 Chronicles 12:8;

and teareth the arm with the crown of the head, at once, just as a lion tears its prey; which figurative phrases are expressive of this tribe conquering and destroying strong and mighty men, signified by the "arm", in which the strength of a man lies, and of kings and governors, pointed at by the "crown of the head"; as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; which was done in the times of Joshua, when with and under him they subdued and destroyed the kings and princes of the land of Canaan.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., Blessed be God who shall grant to Gad a spacious territory. Compare the blessing of Shem Genesis 9:26.

With the crown - Rather, yea, the crown. The warlike character of this tribe is shown by their leading the van in the long campaigns of Joshua (compare Joshua 4:12-13; Joshua 22:1-4). Compare also 1Ch 5:18-22; 1 Chronicles 12:8 ff, and the acts of Jehu, the Gadite, in 2 Kings 9:0; 2 Kings 10:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 33:20. Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad — As deliverance out of distress is termed enlarging, (see Psalms 4:1), this may refer to God's deliverance of the tribe of Gad out of that distress mentioned Genesis 49:19, and to the enlargement obtained through means of Jephthah, Judges 11:33, and probably also to the victories obtained by Gad and Reuben over the Hagarites, 1 Chronicles 5:18-20.

He dwelleth as a lion — Probably the epithet of lion or lion-like was applied to this tribe from their fierce and warlike disposition. And on this supposition, 1 Chronicles 12:8, will appear to be a sufficient comment: And of the Gadites there were-men of might, men of war for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were LIKE THE FACES OF LIONS, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains. Tearing the arm or shoulder with the crown of the head seems simply to mean that no force should be able to prevail over them, or stand against them; as the arm or shoulder signifies dominion, and the crown of the head, sovereign princes.


 
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