Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 49:8-12
“Judah, your brothers will praise you, Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, Your father’s sons will bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s whelp, My son, you are gone up from the prey, He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness, who will rouse him up? Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And the obedience of the peoples will be to him. Binding his foal to the vine, And his ass’s colt to the choice vine, He has washed his garments in wine, And... read more
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 49:1-33
Before his passing, Jacob, in forecasting the future of his sons, based what he had to say on what he had already seen in them. In some cases the allusions are difficult to follow, and the connection is not easy to see. In others both are unmistakable. Speaking of Reuben, Jacob declared that pre-eminence of privilege does lot necessarily issue in pre-eminence of position. Of Simeon and Levi he declared that cruelty of character ever issues in division and scattering. In Judah he saw the... read more