Out of Asher his bread shall be fat
Which signifies that this tribe would have a sufficiency of food
out of their own land, without being obliged to others, and that
it would be of the best sort; it occupied a tract of land, as
Andrichomius F12 says, reaching from great Zidon to
Carmel of the sea, a space of twenty miles in length; and in
breadth, from the great sea to Asor, and even to Naason, a space
of nine miles; the land of this tribe is very fat, he says, and
exceeding fruitful in wine and oil, especially in the best wheat:
and in this tribe, as the same writer F13
observes, among other very fruitful places was the valley of
Asher, called the fat valley, which began five miles from
Ptolemais, and reached to the sea of Galilee, and contained more
than ten miles in length; the soil of which was exceeding fat and
fruitful, and produced the most delicate wine and wheat, and
might be truly called the fat valley, see ( Deuteronomy
33:24 ) and he shall yield royal dainties;
food fit for kings, of all sorts, flesh, fish, and fowl: here
King Solomon had one of his purveyors to provide food for him and
his household, ( 1 Kings 4:16
) . Asher's country answered to his name, which signifies happy
or blessed: in those parts Christ was much in the days of his
flesh on earth; in Cana of this tribe he turned water into wine
and in this country discoursed concerning the bread of life
himself, who is the best of bread and royal dainties.