Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 49:19.
Genesis 49:19
Excerpted from: The Doctrine of Israel (Part Eleven): Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33Jacob only gives that one cryptic verse and Moses gives him quite a bit more. What Jacob says can be translated as, "Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack at their heels." What this is, is a long word play, a group of puns on the name of Gad, and the puns are in the words "attacked," "band of raiders," and "attack," along with the name Gad, but they all have, in Hebrew, the word Gad in it or or something that sounds very similar to Gad. Now, according to I Chronicles 5:18 and 12:8, Gad was known throughout the tribes of Israel for its military prowess. What Jacob seems to be saying in verse 19 is that Gad may suffer attack, but he will always give as good as he took and prevail. Because if you attack Gad and inflict some injury on him, you will soon be running the other way, with Gad at your heels. They are not going to take these things lying down.
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