Naphtali

Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”

Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

“The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali

Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.

Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

About Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of the LORD’s blessing, Possess the west and the south.”

and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,

The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?