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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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BENJAMIN— After so remarkable a benediction had been bestowed on
Joseph, Benjamin, who was also tenderly loved of his father, might
reasonably have expected to have heard that some great blessing was...
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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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_BENJAMIN SHALL RAVIN AS A WOLF: IN THE MORNING HE SHALL DEVOUR THE
PREY, AND AT NIGHT HE SHALL DIVIDE THE_ _ SPOIL._
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf. This tribe, whose settlement was to
lie on the bo...
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Benjamin was a very warlike tribe. Saul, the first king of Israel, was
a Benjamite; and so was that other Saul who 'fought a good fight'
under his great Captain, 2 Timothy 4:7....
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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...
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The *Hebrew word for ‘wild dog’ means ‘wolf’. A wolf is a
fierce wild dog that hunts in groups.
In later times, the *tribe of Benjamin were fierce people. They fought
a war against the other *descend...
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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...
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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...
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BENJAMIN. — With this description of their ancestor agrees the
character of his race, which was the most spirited and warlike of all
the tribes of Israel.
It would be interesting to compare the notice...
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בִּנְיָמִין֙ זְאֵ֣ב יִטְרָ֔ף בַּ †
בֹּ֖קֶר יֹ֣אכַל...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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_Wolf; alluding to the wars in the defence of the inhabitants of
Gabaa, and those waged by Saul, Mardocheus, &c. (Menochius) (Judges
xix. and xx.) St. Paul was of this tribe; and, from a fiery zealot,...
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Isaiah 1:7; 1 Peter 2:6
Nothing can afford a higher proof that the Patriarch Jacob, in all
that he here said, was guided by the spirit of prophecy, and not by
natural affection: because his prediction...
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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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27._Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf_. Some of the Jews think the
Benjamites are here condemned; because, when they had suffered lusts
to prevail, like lawless robbers, among them, they were at length c...
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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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BENJAMIN SHALL RAVIN AS A WOLF,.... All the three Targums apply this
prophecy to the priests offering the daily sacrifice, morning and
evening, in the temple, which stood in the lot of Benjamin, and
d...
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Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the
prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Ver. 27. _Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf._] There are that think that
this ought to...
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_Benjamin shall raven as a wolf_ It is plain Jacob was guided in what
he said by a spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection, else he
would have spoken with more tenderness of his beloved son B...
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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...
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the
prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. There would be no end to
the successful raids of this warlike tribe, such men as Ehud,...
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THE PROPHECY UPON GAD, ASHER, NAPHTALI, JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN...
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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...
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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...
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22-27 The blessing of Joseph is very full. What Jacob says of him, is
history as well as prophecy. Jacob reminds him of the difficulties and
fiery darts of temptations he had formerly struggled throu...
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He notes the warlike and fierce disposition and carriage of that
tribe. Instances whereof we have JUDGES 3:15, JUDGES 19:1-20:48 1
SAMUEL 13:1:35. This may be understood, either of the same wolf, whic...
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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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“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning he will devour the prey
and at even he will divide the spoil.”
To a shepherd the ravenous wolf was a dreaded but awesome sight. He
ate in the morning and...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Zebulun. .. Issachar. .. Dan. .. Gad. .. Asher. .. Naphtali. ..
Benjamin_
THE BLESSINGS OF ZEBULUN, &C.
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Consider these blessings--
I. IN THEIR VARIETY.
1. Maritime power.
2. Husbandry.
3. Po...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 49:27 Using the image of a WOLF, Jacob
reveals that the descendants of BENJAMIN will be aggressive warriors
(e.g.,...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 49:22. Whose branches run over the wall.] “Transcend all the
usual boundaries of a well-enclosed garden. Joseph is, in prospect,
the twofold tribe that bursts the bounds assi...
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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...
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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...
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ravin. Genesis 35:18 Genesis 46:21 Deuteronomy 33:12 a wolf. Numbers
23:24...
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf — It is plain, Jacob was guided in
what he said by a spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection,
else he would have spoken with more tenderness of his beloved son...