Jacob’s sixth son, the second born to Bilhah, and named for a fight: with wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed, naphtulei … niphtalti, Rachel says (Genesis 30:8, already on these pages) — the child is a round won in the war between two wives. ⭐ Jacob’s oracle gives him the shortest and gentlest line of the twelve: Naphtali is a doe let loose, giving beautiful words (Genesis 49:21, already on these pages). ⚠ At Deuteronomy 27:13 he is the last of the six tribes named for Mount Ebal and the curse; the tribe’s land is upper Galilee, west of the lake, which is why the Gospels can place Capernaum in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali (Matthew 4:13, already on these pages).