27. There is little Benjamin with their ruler. The tribe was small, but it had the honor of including Zion within its
territory. Little Benjamin had been Jacob’s darling, and now the tribe is made
to march first in the procession, and to dwell nearest to the holy place. The princes of Judah and their council. Judah was a large and powerful tribe,
not with one governor, like Benjamin, but with many princes “and their company,” for so
the margin has it. “From thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel,” and the
tribe was a quarry of stones wherewith to build up the nations: some such truth
is hinted at in the Hebrew. The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. Israel was there, as well as Judah: there was no schism among the
people. The north sent a representative contingent as well as the south, and so
the long procession set forth the hearty loyalty of all the tribes to their
Lord and King. O happy day, when all believers will be one around the ark of
the Lord, striving for nothing but the glory of the God of grace.
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