Naphtali

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(wrestling). Sixth son of Jacob and second son of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid. (Gen. 30:88And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. (Genesis 30:8); Gen. 35:25; 46:2425And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: (Genesis 35:25)
24And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. (Genesis 46:24)). Large tribe at Sinai and Jordan (Num. 1:43; 26:5043Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. (Numbers 1:43)
50These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred. (Numbers 26:50)). Allotment in northern Canaan (Josh. 19:32-3932The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. 33And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: 34And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. 35And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, 36And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, 37And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, 38And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. 39This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. (Joshua 19:32‑39)). Tribe carried captive in reign of Pekah (2 Kings 15:2929In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29)). For “mount Naphtali” (Josh. 20:77And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. (Joshua 20:7)), read, mountains of Naphtali.