GENESIS CHAPTER 48 Jacob being sick, Joseph comes and visits him, GENESIS 48:1,2. Jacob declares God's appearances and promises to him, GENESIS 48:3,4; adopts Joseph's two sons Manasseh and Ephraim to be fathers of two tribes in Israel, GENESIS 48:5,6; mentions Rachel's death, and the place where he... [ Continue Reading ]
He got new strength, his spirits being quickened and refreshed by the tidings of Joseph's approach, and he put forth all the strength which he had.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THY TWO SONS ARE MINE, by adoption: I shall own them as if they were my immediate children, and each of them shall have equal share, both in my present estate, and future inheritance of Canaan, with the rest of my children. Thus Jacob transfers the double portion, which was the right of the first-bo... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall be reputed as thy children, and my grandchildren, and shall not have any distinct share in my present or future inheritance, but shall have a part of their brethren's lot, in such manner and proportion as thou shalt think fit, or as their succeeding parents or governors shall determine. But it... [ Continue Reading ]
RACHEL DIED BY ME; or, _beside me; _ near me, before mine eyes, I seeing, but not being able to help her in her extremity; which makes the remembrance of it more grievous to me. This story he here mentions, partly because the sight of Joseph and his children brought his beloved Rachel to his remembr... [ Continue Reading ]
For Jacob's eyes were dim through age and infirmity, as is observed GENESIS 48:10, and therefore he could not distinctly discern them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, THAT I MAY BLESS THEM, not with a common, but with a paternal, and patriarchal, and prophetical blessing, in the name and by the Spirit of God, praying for and foretelling those blessings which God will confer upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
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FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES; not his own knees, from which they had been taken before, but Jacob's knees, between which they stood whilst Jacob kissed and embraced them; from which Joseph removed them, partly that they might not be burdensome to their aged and weak grandfather, and principally that he mi... [ Continue Reading ]
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The RIGHT HAND was more honourable both in Scripture account, and amongst the Gentiles. LAID IT UPON EPHRAIM'S HEAD; which was a rite used often, and in divers cases, as in the conferring of offices either sacred or civil, as NUMBERS 8:10 DEUTERONOMY 34:9 ACTS 6:6, ACTS 13:3; and among other things,... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BLESSED JOSEPH, not now in his person, but in his children, which yet is called here a _blessing of Joseph, _ because they were a part of himself. In which sense, and upon the same ground, the land of Canaan is ofttimes said to be not only _promised, _ but _given to Abraham_ and _Isaac, _ & c., n... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANGEL; not surely a created angel, but Christ Jesus, who is called an _Angel,_ EXODUS 23:20, and _the Angel of the covenant,_ ZECHARIAH 3:1, who was the conductor of the Israelites in the wilderness, as plainly appears by comparing of EXODUS 23:20,21, with 1 CORINTHIANS 10:4,9. Add hereunto, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
IT DISPLEASED HIM, because of that affection which parents generally have for their first-born. See GENESIS 21:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
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GREATER THAN HE; so the tribe of Ephraim was both in number, NUMBERS 1:32,33,35 2:19,21 DEU 33:17, and in power and privileges; for that tribe was the seat first of the tabernacle, and afterwards of the kingdom. Whence the name of Ephraim is sometimes put for all the ten tribes, as ISAIAH 7:2, and s... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THEE, i.e. in thy seed, as appears both from the relative THEM here, and from GENESIS 48:15, where his blessing of them is called the blessing of Joseph; and from the following words, where this is interpreted of EPHRAIM and MANASSEH. And IN THEE, or in thy seed, i.e. using their names in the for... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I DIE, i.e. I am about to die; the present time for that which will shortly and certainly be, as GENESIS 19:13, GENESIS 20:3 1 THESSALONIANS 14:2. THE LAND OF YOUR FATHERS, i.e. Canaan; their land, 1. By habitation, as Nazareth is called Christ's country because he dwelt in it. 2. By the d... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. I do now give to thee the right, and I do prophetically give, and God will really and actually give unto thy son Ephraim, or his and posterity, who shall possess this part over above that portion which shall fall to him by lot. This was all the land which Jacob had in Canaan, which he here give... [ Continue Reading ]