Ulangan 33:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tentang Gad ia berkata: "Terpujilah Dia yang memberi kelapangan kepada Gad. Seperti singa betina ia diam dan menerkam lengan, bahkan batu kepala.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tentang Gad ia berkata: "Terpujilah Dia yang memberi kelapangan kepada Gad. Seperti singa betina ia diam dan menerkam lengan, bahkan batu kepala.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akan hal Gad katanya: Segala puji bagi Tuhan, yang telah mengaruniai Gad dengan tempat kedudukan yang luas; di sanalah ia diam bagaikan seekor singa betina, dicarik-cariknya baik lengan baik batu kepala.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ And vnto Zabulon he sayde: Reioyce Zabulon in thy goyng out, and thou Isachar in thy tentes. ¹⁹ They shall call the people vnto the hyll, & there they shall offer offeringes of righteousnesse: For they shall sucke of the aboundaunce of the sea, and of treasure hyd in the sande. ²⁰ And vnto Gad he sayde: Blessed be he that inlarged Gad: he dwelleth as a Lion that catcheth for a pray the arme with the head. ²¹ He loked to hym selfe at the beginning, because there was a portion of the lawgeuer hid, & he came with the heades of the people, and executed the ryghteousnesse of the Lorde, and his iudgementes with Israel.

Bible Verse Review
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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

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram taking downe his tent, came and dwelled in the playne of Mamre, which is in Hebron, & buylded there an aulter vnto the Lorde.

Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a wood in Beer seba, and called there on the name of the Lorde the euerlasting God.

Genesis 32:28
He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled.

Genesis 33:7
Lea also with her children, came and dyd their obeysaunce? And last of all came Ioseph and Rachel, and dyd theyr obeysaunce.

Genesis 33:8
And he sayde: what is all the droue whiche I met? He aunswered: that I may finde grace in the sight of my lorde.

Genesis 35:7
And he builded there an aulter, and called the place, the God of Bethel, because that god appeared vnto him there when he fled fro the face of his brother.

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.