Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Teareth

General references

Bible References

Blessed

Genesis 9:26
And he will say, Praised Jehovah, God of Shem; Canaan shall be servant to him.
Joshua 13:8
With him the Reubenites and the Gadites took their inheritance which Moses gave to them on the other side of Jordan from the sunrising, as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave to them:
1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez will call to God of Israel, saying, If blessing, thou wilt bless me and enlarge my bound, and thine hand were with me, and didst me from evil, so as not to afflict me! And God will bring what he asked.
1 Chronicles 12:8
And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste;
Psalm 18:19
And he will bring me forth to a wide place: he will deliver me, for he delighted in me.

He dwelleth

1 Chronicles 5:18
The sons of Reuben and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh from the sons of strength, men lifting up shield and sword, and bending the bow, and accustomed to war; forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty going forth to war.
1 Chronicles 12:8
And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste;

Teareth

Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

General references

Genesis 49:19
Gad, a troop, shall press upon him; and this shall press upon the heel.