THE DOMINANT HEART-CHARACTER OF THE PERSONALITY OF NAPHTALI IN ACTION AND ALSO GIVING THE RESULTS OF HIS ACTS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE LORD IN THE LAST DAYS The Lord portraying the GENESIS XLIX:21-B. C. 1689 HEART-CHARACTER of the Tribe of Naphtali. DEUT. XXXIII:23—B. C. 1451 *21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. JULDGES IV:1-9-B. C. 1316 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and op *23¶ And of Naphtali he said, O twenty years he mightily Naphtali, satisfied with favour, pressed the children of Israel. and full with the blessing of the 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, LORD; possess thou the west and the wife of Lapidoth, she judged the south. Israel at that time. *Deut. 33:23 and Gen. 49:21-"Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words." The dominant HEART-CHARACTER of the Personality of Naphtali in action. Ps. 85:9-Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. Is. 57:1-2-1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his unrightness. 5 And she dwelt under the palm-JUDGES V:18-B. C. 1296 tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? 7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. 8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. 9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. GEN. XLVIII:15-20-B. C. 1689 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased hand to remove it from Ephraim's him and he held up his father's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. |