Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Genesis 49:21 belongs to the dying testimony spoken in the last hours to his children, his sorrowing sons, as an affectionate and forgiving father who loved them to the last and held no resentment for their wrongs. Its words did not arise from natural paternal feeling, which would have expressed only love and tenderness, but came from God by the spirit of prophecy in inspired prophetic utterance that lifted the mind above natural feeling. It was spoken with angels surrounding him and with the power of God's grace shining upon him, declaring truth even when painful. Unlike the gloomy word to Simeon and Levi setting forth God's view of their deeds of violence and that He would visit them for their sins, the prophetic word to Naphtali, with the other sons, was not as gloomy.
Genesis 49:21 belongs to the dying testimony spoken in the last hours to his children, his sorrowing sons, as an affectionate and forgiving father who loved them to the last and held no resentment for their wrongs. Its words did not arise from natural paternal feeling, which would have expressed only love and tenderness, but came from God by the spirit of prophecy in inspired prophetic utterance that lifted the mind above natural feeling. It was spoken with angels surrounding him and with the power of God's grace shining upon him, declaring truth even when painful. Unlike the gloomy word to Simeon and Levi setting forth God's view of their deeds of violence and that He would visit them for their sins, the prophetic word to Naphtali, with the other sons, was not as gloomy.