Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 49:27 - 49:27

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 49:27 - 49:27


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:





He notes the warlike and fierce disposition and carriage of that tribe. Instances whereof we have Jud_3:15 19:1-20:48 1Sa_13:1-15:35. This may be understood, either of the same wolf, which in the morning, being more hungry and greedy, devours his prey alone; but in the evening, being in some measure satisfied, is content that his brethren should share with him. Or rather of several sorts of wolves, whereof some hunt and devour alone, others hunt in couples or troops, and those divide the prey among themselves. He mentions both



morning and



evening, because these are the two seasons when the wolves prey, and to note that this would be Benjamin’s carriage both in the first and last times of that tribe, as indeed it was.