It is objected, "In truth Naphtali received a district in the north of Palestine but none in the south and the west." The phrase "the west and the south" may also be translated "southward to the lake" as it is in the NIV. In this case all that the text is saying is that Naphtali will dwell in the land to the north of the lake (Galilee), which it did occupy. The text literally read, "take possession of sea and south"—their territory surrounded the Sea of Galilee and went south to the Dead Sea.