Verse 21
21. A hind sent forth The image is that of a beautiful hind or gazelle running loose and in perfect freedom upon its native heights . The agility and prowess of this tribe are nobly celebrated in Deborah’s song .
Giver of sayings of beauty The elegance and beauty of the hind suggests that the tribe so compared might naturally have had an elegant taste for sayings of beauty; elegant proverbs and songs. As the tribe of Zebulun developed ready writers, (Judges 5:14,) so Naphtali, perhaps, became noted for elegant speakers . This seems to be the general sense of the verse; but we know too little of the subsequent history and character of the tribe to enable us to define more particularly . Several critics, following the Septuagint, render: “Naphtali is a spreading tree, which puts forth goodly branches . ” But this is scarcely tenable .
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