_JOSEPH BRINGS HIS TWO SONS, MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM, TO BE BLESSED BY
HIS FATHER: JACOB, ADOPTING THEM, PLACES HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE HEAD OF
EPHRAIM, AND HIS LEFT ON MANASSEH, AND ASSIGNS TO JOSEPH THAT...
PART THIRTY-SIX
RECAPITULATION: SURVEY OF THE PATRIARCHAL AGE
From _A Class-Book of Old Testament History,_ pp. 73-76
by G. F. Maclear, D.D.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1881,
now long out of pri...
1:1 God (a-4) Heb. _ Elohim_ , the plural of _ Eloah_ , 'the
Supreme'. It is Deity in the absolute sense. _ Elohim_ will, in the
text, appear only in the name of _ Jehovah Elohim_ ; moreover, when _...
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 48
Joseph, hearing that his father Jacob was sick, paid him a visit,
Genesis 49:1; at which time Jacob gave him an account of the Lord's
appearing to him at Luz, and of the p...
_A.M. 2315. B.C. 1689._
In this chapter Jacob's dying words are recorded, because he speaks by
a spirit of prophecy; Abraham's and Isaac's are not. God's gifts and
graces shine forth much more in som...
1 Ioseph with his sonnes visiteth his sicke father.
2 Iacob strengtheneth himselfe to blesse them.
3 He repeateth the promise.
5 He taketh Ephraim and Manasseh as his owne.
7 Hee telleth him of hi...