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Verse Genesis 48:14. _ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND, C._]
Laying hands on the head was always used among the Jews in giving
blessings, designating men to any office, and in the consecration of...
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- Joseph Visits His Sick Father
The right of primogeniture has been forfeited by Reuben. The double
portion in the inheritance is now transferred to Joseph. He is the
first-born of her who was intende...
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CHAPTER 48 JACOB ADOPTS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
_ 1. The sons of Joseph brought to Jacob (Gen. 48-12)_
2. The words of Jacob (Genesis 48:3)
3. Ephraim and Manasseh presented (Genesis 48:8)
4. Jacob's...
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GENESIS 47:27 TO GENESIS 48:22. JACOB EXTRACTS AN OATH THAT JOSEPH
WILL BURY HIM IN CANAAN, AND BLESSES EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.
Genesis 47:22 f.,...
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ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND— Laying hands on the head was
always used among the Jews in giving blessings, in appointing men to
any office, and in the consecration of solemn sacrifices. This is...
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PART FORTY-SEVEN
THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH
(Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26)
The Biblical Account
48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick:...
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_AND ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND, AND LAID IT UPON EPHRAIM'S
HEAD, WHO WAS THE YOUNGER, AND HIS LEFT HAND UPON MANASSEH'S HEAD,
GUIDING HIS HANDS WITTINGLY; FOR MANASSEH WAS THE FIRSTBORN._
G...
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JACOB BLESSES MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM, THE SONS OF JOSEPH
He adopts them as his own sons with privileges equal to the others,
thus making them heads of distinct tribes. By so doing he gives to
Joseph, th...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 48
JACOB BLESSES JOSEPH’S SONS
V1 After this, Joseph heard that his father was ill. So he went to
his father and he took with him his two sons, M...
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Jacob knew that Ephraim’s *descendants would be greater than
Manasseh’s *descendants. (See verse 19.) God told him this.
V15 And Israel blessed them. He said,
‘My fathers Abraham and Isaac lived in...
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GUIDING HIS HANDS WITTINGLY. — The LXX., Syriac, and Vulg.
translate, “placing his hands crosswise;” but the Targum of
Onkelos favours the translation of our version. There is some amount
of philologi...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַח֩ יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל אֶת
־יְמִינֹ֜ו וַ י
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THE BLESSINGS OF THE TRIBES
Genesis 48:1; Genesis 49:1
JACOB'S blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal
dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not
consist o...
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JACOB BLESSES JOSEPH'S SONS
Genesis 48:8
By his act in blessing them, Jacob reversed the verdict of birth, and
gave the younger the birthright. Probably there were qualities in
Ephraim which naturall...
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The use of the two names is observed once more. Jacob was sick, but,
hearing that Joseph was coming to see him, it was Israel that
strengthened himself. Once again Jacob was the speaker and in what he...
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JACOB'S FINAL DAYS
The writer gives a brief record of the rest of Jacob's life before he
gives details of the events surrounding the time of his death. Jacob
lived seventeen more years in Egypt and s...
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And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] upon (d)
Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the
first...
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Changing. Hebrew, "making his hands intelligent;" or giving to
understand, by forming a cross with his extended hands, that he had
some particular reason for so doing. (Haydock) --- By the preference...
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As Jacob in the blessing was acting under the spirit of prophecy, he
was guided more by what should take place in those tribes of Israel in
the after ages of the Church, than by birth-right. See Numbe...
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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14._And Israel stretched out his right hand_. Seeing his eyes were dim
with age, so that he could not, by looking, discern which was the
elder, he yet intentionally placed his hands across. And theref...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50.
Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in
the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark
of...
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AND ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND,.... Not directly forward, but
across, or otherwise it would have been laid on Manasseh, as Joseph
designed it should by the position he placed him in:
AND LAI...
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_And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] upon Ephraim's
head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstbor...
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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...
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And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's
head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born; he...
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The Blessing upon Ephraim and Manasseh...
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NINTH SECTION
_Jacob’s sickness. His blessing of his grandchildren. Joseph’s
sons._
GENESIS 48:1-22
1And it came to pass, after these things, that _one_ told Joseph,
Behold, thy father _Isaiah 23:2_...
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ISRAEL'S BLESSING FOR JOSEPH AND HIS SONS
A little later Joseph was told that his father was sick, so he brought
his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim to visit him. Jacob strengthened
himself to sit on t...
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8-22 The two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph says, They
are my sons whom God has given me. Jacob says, God hath showed me thy
seed. Comforts are doubly sweet to us when we see them coming...
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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
e...
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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‘And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's
head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.'
Jacob...
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Genesis 48 and 49
_(with Deuteronomy 33and Judges 5)_
Jacob's blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal
dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not
consist of...
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CONTENTS: Jacob on his death bed blesses Joseph's sons.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, Ephriam, Manasseh, Reuben, Simeon, Rachael.
CONCLUSION: God in His grace, does not always observe the order of
natu...
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Genesis 48:1. _His two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim._ We here see again
with what alacrity, reverence and devotion the sons of the holy
patriarchs awaited the final benediction of their departing Sires,...
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_Israel beheld Joseph’s sons_
LESSONS
1.
Prudence in good men may divert nature from the remembrance of sad
events. About Rachel.
2. Weak nature may see in part that which it doth not discern. So...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 48:1 When Jacob is very old and close to
death, he pronounces a variety of blessings on his sons. He first
blesses Joseph’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim (ch. Genesis 48:1),
a...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 48:13 By placing his RIGHT HAND on the head
of EPHRAIM (v. Genesis 48:13), Jacob gives him priority ov
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 48:12. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees.]
“His,” _i.e.,_ Jacob’s. He was in a sitting posture, and in
embracing them had drawn them between his knees.—
GENE...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 48:1
AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS (_i.e._ the events recorded in
the preceding chapter, and in particular after the arrangements which
had been made for Jacob's funeral),...
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So it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
your father's sick (Genesis 48:1):
He's dying.
and so Joseph grabbed his two sons to go and visit his father for the
last time, Ma...
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his right hand. Exodus 15:6 Psalms 110:1 Psalms 118:16 and laid.
Numbers 8:10...