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Genesis 49:18

Genesis 49:18 waited H6960 (H8765) salvation H3444 LORD H3068

Psalms 14:7, Psalms 25:6, Psalms 40:1, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 85:7, Psalms 119:41, Psalms 119:166, Psalms 119:174, Psalms 123:2, Psalms 130:5; Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 25:9, Isaiah 36:8, Isaiah 30:18, Isaiah 33:2; Lamentations 3:25; Micah 7:7; Matthew 1:21; Mark 15:43; Luke 1:30, Luke 2:25, Luke 2:30, Luke 23:51; Romans 8:19, Romans 8:25; Galatians 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:10

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See also Genesis 49:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Jacob Blesses His Sons 5. מכרה _m__e__kêrāh_, “weapon;” related: כיר _kārar_ or כרה _kārāh_ dig. “Device, design?” related: מכר _mākar_ “sell,” in Arabic “take counsel. Habitation.” 10. מחקק...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 49 JACOB'S PROPHECY _ 1. The call of Jacob: “Gather yourselves together” (Genesis 49:1)_ 2. The prophecy concerning his sons (Genesis 49:3) Reuben (Genesis 49:3) Simeon and Levi ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSING OF JACOB. This poem had an independent origin, but if it was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances on t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I HAVE WAITED FOR THY SALVATION, O LORD— Various have been the reasons assigned by commentators, for the introduction of this ejaculation. Some suppose, that the good old patriarch's spirits growing f...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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:...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I HAVE WAITED FOR THY SALVATION, O LORD._ I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. The connection of this clause with the preceding context has greatly perplexed critics. Some maintain that it is an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB BLESSES HIS TWELVE SONS It is generally considered that in its present form, this chapter gives us indeed the last utterances of the dying patriarch respecting the future of his sons, but with a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The connexion of this verse with the preceding is uncertain. Kalisch says, 'the poet, identifying himself with the oppressed and embarrassed tribe, utters in its name, with mingled reliance and resign...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Before Jacob died, he gave his *blessing as the father of the family. A father’s *blessing was very important. (See Isaac’s *blessing in Genesis 27:26-40.) God told Jacob what he should say. Therefore...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 49 JACOB BLESSES HIS SONS V1 Then Jacob called his sons. He said to them, ‘Gather yourselves together. I will tell you what shall happen to you in...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE WAITED FOR THY SALVATION, O LORD (JEHOVAH). — Among the many explanations hazarded of this ejaculation the most probable is that given in the _Speaker’s Commentary,_ that the thought of the ser...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לִֽ ישׁוּעָתְךָ֖ קִוִּ֥יתִי יְהוָֽה׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSEPH SPECIALLY BLESSED Genesis 49:13 The position of Zebulun and the following tribes in the land of promise is accurately foretold. Compare the allotments of Joshua 18:1. Notice the exclamation of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Before his passing, Jacob, in forecasting the future of his sons, based what he had to say on what he had already seen in them. In some cases the allusions are difficult to follow, and the connection...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (o) I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. (o) Seeing the miseries that his posterity would fall into, he bursts out in prayer to God to remedy it....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This verse forms a sweet break in the thread of Jacob's blessing. So said Simeon, Luke 2:25. Reader! GOD grant that so may you and I. Heb 11:13-14....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _WAITING FOR GOD’S SALVATION_ ‘I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.’ Genesis 49:18 These words are a parenthesis in Jacob’s long blessing of his sons. The old man seemed to have been exhausted...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord_. It may be asked, in the first place, what occasion induced the holy man to break the connection of his discourse, and suddenly to burst forth in this expr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE WAITED FOR THY SALVATION, O LORD.. Jacob finding his spirits faint and flag, stops and breathes awhile before he proceeded any further in blessing the tribes; and as he found he was a dying man...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD._ Ver. 18. _I have waited for thy salvation._] A sudden and sweet ejaculation; either, as, feeling himself faint and spent with speaking, he desires to be dis...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord_ These words may be considered in two lights; 1st, As connected with the preceding prophecy concerning Dan, according to the explanation given in the last note...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iacob calleth his sonnes to blesse them. 3 Their blessing in particular. 29 He chargeth them about his buriall. 33 He dieth. 1 AND Iacob called vnto his sonnes, and said, Gather your selues toge...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BLESSING UPON ZEBULUN, ISSACHAR, AND DAN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. This is Jacob's longing cry in the midst of his prophecy, for he asks not only the assistance of the Lord for his descendants in this prayer, but he also confe...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    TENTH SECTION _Jacob’s blessing of his sons. Judah and his brethren. Jacob’s last arrangements. His burial in Canaan. His death._ GENESIS 49:1-33 1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yo...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB'S PROPHECY AS TO THE TWELVE TRIBES (vs.1-28) After a life of many failures and troubles, the last days of Jacob stand out in bright relief. His perception of God's ways became much more clear a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-18 Concerning Zebulun: if prophecy says, Zebulun shall be a haven of ships, be sure Providence will so plant him. God appoints the bounds of our habitation. It is our wisdom and duty to accommodat...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I do earnestly wait, and hope, and pray for thy helping hand to save me and my posterity from the manifold temporal calamities which I foresee will come upon them, and especially from spiritual and et...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 49:18 These words are a parenthesis in Jacob's long blessing of his sons. The old man seemed to have been exhausted with the thoughts and visions which passed over his mind in such quick succ...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 49:1. _And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    L, 2. _And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last day. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; an...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's dying blessing, prophetic of the tribes of Israel. CHARACTERS: Jacob, twelve sons. CONCLUSION: It is a great blessing to attend upon Godly parents in their last hours that we might...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 49:2. _Gather yourselves together._ This phrase implies that they should come purified, and prepared for instruction. Genesis 49:3. _Reuben._ Jacob here seems to enumerate the excellencies of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I have waited for Thy salvation, of Lord_ TIMES OF WAITING A parenthesis in Jacob’s long blessing of his sons. Exhausted with the thoughts and visions which passed over his mind in such quick succ...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Zebulun. .. Issachar. .. Dan. .. Gad. .. Asher. .. Naphtali. .. Benjamin_ THE BLESSINGS OF ZEBULUN, &C. : Consider these blessings-- I. IN THEIR VARIETY. 1. Maritime power. 2. Husbandry. 3. Po...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 49:16 Jacob sees in DAN and his descendants both positive and negative qualities. Their snakelike behavior is later seen in their assault on the unsuspecting inhabitants of Lai...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 49:14. A strong ass.] Heb. _An ass of bone._ “The figure here employed has nothing mean about it. The Oriental ass is a more stately animal than the Western.” (_Lange_)— GENE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 49:1 AND JACOB (having closed his interview with Joseph and his two sons) CALLED (by means of messengers) UNTO HIS SONS (_i.e._ the others who were then absent), AND SAID, GATHER Y...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days (Genesis 49:1). This is probably the grandest hour of the old man Jaco...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 14:7 Psalms 25:6 Psalms 40:1 Psalms 62:1 Psalms 62:5...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I have waited for thy salvation, Lord — If he must break off here, and his breath will not serve him to finish what he intended, with these words he pours out his soul into the bosom of his God, and e...

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