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Series –

The Twelve Tribes of Israel
18
Articles in this Series
Reuben
When Jacob called his sons around him, to give them his prophetic blessing, he naturally turned first to his oldest child. The Words of Jacob. “Reuben, thou art my first-born”, Gen. 49. 3. Leah surely…
J. R. Charlesworth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 2
Exposition
Simeon
At the birth of her second son, Leah’s hopes revived. She said: “Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated (lit. 'not loved’)* he hath therefore given me this son also”, Gen. 29. 33. She called the…
J. R. Charlesworth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 3
Exposition
Levi
Leah, in the hope that the birth of her third son would unite her more fully with her husband, called the child Levi, Gen. 29. 34, which means “closely joined” from the Hebrew root lavah. Jacob, on th…
J. R. Charlesworth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 4
Exposition
Judah
Strong in character, Leah’s fourth boy grew up to have influence with his brothers and his father. When he suggested that Joseph’s life should be spared, “his brethren hearkened unto him’, Gen. 37. 26…
J. R. Charlesworth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 5
Exposition
Zebulon
The families which belonged to Judah, Issachar and Zebulun (Leah’s fourth, fifth and sixth sons), camped on the eastern side of the tabernacle during the pilgrimage to Canaan, and moved together, thro…
J. R. Charlesworth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 6
Exposition
Issachar
As Jacob’s workmen were busy harvesting the wheat crop, five-year-old Reuben played idly in the field. He noticed some attractive little cup-shaped white and purple flowers growing wild. Uprooting som…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 1
Exposition
Dan
The name of each of Jacob’s sons was specially chosen in the light of circumstances. When Rachel saw this boy, she said: “God hath judged me (Heb. dananni)”, Gen. 30.6, and named him “Dan”. Over the y…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 2
Exposition
Gad
Leah claimed Gad (and Asher) in the same way as Rachel adopted Dan and Naphtali. Actually Gad was the son of Zilpah, Leah s maid, and was the seventh of what was ultimately to become a family of thirt…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 3
Exposition
Asher
The keynote is happiness! This emotion seems to impregnate all the recorded facts about Asher. The name itself, given to Zilpah’s second boy, means “happy”. The plural form of the word, ashere, begins…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 4
Exposition
Naphtali
Jacob moved in thought steadily from son to son as he gave each his parting blessing. The tenth he chose was Naphtali, leaving the legitimate offspring of Rachel until last. Naphtali’s mother was Bilh…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 5
Exposition
Joseph
"These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph…”, Gen. 37. 2. It is with this special father-son relationship that the biography of Rachel’s elder boy really begins. The story occupies a quarter of the b…
J. R. Charlesworth
1975 Volume 26 Issue 6
Exposition
Manasseh and Ephraim
Josephs two sons were born at a significant stage in his career. His marriage to Asenath was one outcome of the deprivation he had suffered; and it is helpful to observe that if he had not left his fa…
J. R. Charlesworth
1976 Volume 27 Issue 1
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Naphtali
In our series on the twelve tribes of Israel readers will have sensed that we reached a mountaintop whilst looking at Judah, so far as the purposes of God are concerned. We gave the reasons and backgr…
Lloyd Stock
2019 Volume 74 Issue 4
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Gad
Regrettable contention In the order of birth that we have been following from Genesis chapters 29 and 30, the next son after Napthtali is Gad. ‘When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah…
Lloyd Stock
2020 Volume 75 Issue 1
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Zebulun
As we near the end of this series on the tribes of Israel, we notice an awakening in Jacob’s home. Leah has put an end to relying on her handmaid, and God is back in her consciousness again – she clea…
Lloyd Stock
2020 Volume 75 Issue 4
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Ephraim and Manasseh
In the introduction to this series we explained how it was that Ephraim and Manasseh came to feature in the twelve tribes of Israel. Revisiting that introduction at this point is recommended, Precious…
Lloyd Stock
2021 Volume 76 Issue 1
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Benjamin
We have come to the end of our series on the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Along the way we have seen the hand of a gracious, sovereign God working out His purposes in spite of human failure. It is the sam…
Lloyd Stock
2021 Volume 76 Issue 2
Exposition
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