SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:12
Estos estarán sobre el monte de Gerizim para bendecir al pueblo, cuando hubiereis pasado el Jordán: Simeón, y Leví, y Judá, e Isacar, y José y Benjamín.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:12
Verse 12. These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people] Instead of upon Mount, &c., we may translate by, as the particle l[ al is sometimes used; for we do not find that the tribes did stand on either mount, for in Josh. viii. 33, when this direction was reduced to practice, we find the people did not stand on the mountains, but over against them on the plain. See the observations at the end of this chapter.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people , widen ye are come over Jordan , etc.] Which was a mountain in Samaria opposite to Mount Ebal, a valley of a furlong broad lay between them f488 ; and, according to Hillerus f489 , had its name from being broken off from that, they being, as it should seem, originally one mountain, and now two tops of the same; so Burchard; but others think it signifies the mountain of the mowers or cutters down f490 ; that is, of grass or corn, being a very fruitful one; and Benjamin of Tudela says f491 , that in his time, on Mount Gerizim were fountains and orchards; and being such a fertile mountain, it was very proper to bless upon. Mr. Maundrel f492 , a late traveller in those parts, says, “though neither of the mountains have much to boast of as to their pleasantness, yet as one passes between them, Gerizim seems to discover a somewhat more verdant fruitful aspect than Ebal; the reason of which may be, because fronting towards the north it is sheltered from the heat of the sun by its own shade; whereas Ebal looking southward, and receiving the sun that comes directly upon it, must by consequence be rendered more scorched and unfruitful.” Josephus says, that Gerizim was on the right hand, and Ebal on the left; which may serve to strengthen the observation of Ainsworth, in allusion hereunto, that in the last judgment those on the right hand will be pronounced blessed, and those on the left hand cursed: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin : these appointed for blessing were children of the mistress, or free woman, as Aben Ezra and many others have observed; the four first were the sons of Leah, and the two last the sons of Rachel, and therefore employed in the most honourable and desirable service: and who so proper to pronounce or receive the blessing as the children of the free woman, of Jerusalem above, which is free, the mother of us all that are born again, and are made free by the Son of God, and are free indeed, and are entitled to all the blessings of grace and glory?
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-26 - The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the fre women, for to such the promise belongs, Ga 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves the blessing and curse the preach to others, and by faith set their own Amen to it. And they mus not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing but awe them with the threatenings of a curse, by declaring that curse would be upon those who do such things. To each of the curses the people were to say, Amen. It professed their faith, that these, and the like curses, were real declarations of the wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, not one jot of which shall fal to the ground. It was acknowledging the equity of these curses. Thos who do such things deserve to fall, and lie under the curse. Lest thos who were guilty of other sins, not here mentioned, should thin themselves safe from the curse, the last reaches all. Not only thos who do the evil which the law forbids, but those also who omit the goo which the law requires. Without the atoning blood of Christ, sinner can neither have communion with a holy God, nor do any thing acceptabl to him; his righteous law condemns every one who, at any time, or i any thing, transgresses it. Under its awful curse we remain a transgressors, until the redemption of Christ is applied to our hearts Wherever the grace of God brings salvation, it teaches the believer to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, an godly in this present world, consenting to, and delighting in the word of God's law, after the inward man. In this holy walk, true peace an solid joy are to be found __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אלה 428 יעמדו 5975 לברך 1288 את 853 העם 5971 על 5921 הר 2022 גרזים 1630 בעברכם 5674 את 853 הירדן 3383 שׁמעון 8095 ולוי 3878 ויהודה 3063 וישׂשכר 3485 ויוסף 3130 ובנימן׃ 1144
