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Verse Genesis 49:4. _POURING OUT LIKE THE WATERS_] This is an obscure
sentence because _unfinished_. It evidently relates to the defilement
of his father's couch; and the word פחז _pachaz_, here tran...
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- 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...
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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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UNSTABLE AS WATER— _Thou hast been unstable as the waters,_ Durell
renders it, following the Samaritan reading, which according to his
judgment connects better with the preceding verse.
_SHALT NOT EXC...
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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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_UNSTABLE AS WATER, THOU SHALT NOT EXCEL; BECAUSE THOU WENTEST UP TO
THY FATHER'S BED; THEN DEFILEDST THOU IT: HE WENT UP TO MY COUCH._
Unstable as water - a boiling up as of water (art thou); i:e.,...
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49:4 Impetuous (a-1) In the sense of the impetuosity of lust. Lit.
'bubbling up.'...
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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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UNSTABLE] rather, 'unrestrained,' descriptive of ungoverned passion.
Reuben's sin is mentioned in Genesis 35:22. EXCEL] rather, 'have the
preëminence.'
5-7. The prediction respecting SIMEON and LEVI....
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‘You flow as water flows.’ A person cannot lean on water because
the water moves. So this means, ‘A person cannot trust you.’
‘You shall not be first.’ Before this time, Reuben had the right
of the o...
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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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UNSTABLE. — This translation is shown to be right by the use of the
word in Judges 9:4; Zephaniah 3:4, in both which places it is
translated _light._ Out of this sense of lightness and frivolity
natur...
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פַּ֤חַז כַּ † מַּ֨יִם֙ אַל ־תֹּותַ֔ר
כִּ֥י...
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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 FORETELLS THE FUTURE OF HIS SONS
Genesis 49:1
Once more Joseph visited his father's dying-bed. This was the third
time and the last. He stood as one of twelve strong bearded men,
gathered aroun...
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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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Grow thou not. This was not meant by way of a curse or imprecation;
but by way of a prophecy, foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should
not inherit the pre-eminences usually annexed to the first
birt...
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Proverbs 4:1
It is remarkable that from this tribe of Israel, there never arose a
governor, a prophet, or prince. And it is as remarkable that the
Reubenites chose their settlement on the other side o...
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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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4._Unstable as water_. He shows that the honor which had not a good
conscience for its keeper, was not firm but evanescent; and thus he
rejects Reuben from the primogeniture. He declares the cause, le...
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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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UNSTABLE AS WATER,.... Which is not to be understood of the levity of
his mind, and his disposition to hurt, and the impetuous force of that
breaking forth like water, and carrying him into the commis...
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to
thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]: he went up to my couch.
Ver. 4. _Unstable as water._] Easily drawn to sin, and suddenly...
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_Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might_ Begotten in the prime and
vigour of my days; _the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power_ Such were the prerogatives of the birthright, which he w...
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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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The Blessing upon Reuben...
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; he was like the bubbling of
boiling water, rashly impulsive, and therefore he would lose the
dignity and the preference of his birthright. BECAUSE THOU WENTEST...
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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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THOU SHALT NOT EXCELL:
_ Heb._ do not thou excell
HE WENT UP TO MY COUCH:
Or, my couch is gone...
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3-7 Reuben was the first-born; but by gross sin, he forfeited the
birthright. The character of Reuben is, that he was unstable as water.
Men do not thrive, because they do not fix. Reuben's sin left...
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UNSTABLE AS WATER: this may concern either,
1. Something past, or Reuben's fault; and so he is said to have been
UNSTABLE, or _light, _ and _vain, _ as the word is used, JUDGES 9:4
ZEPHANIAH 3:4; _lik...
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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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“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my
power,
Pre-eminent in dignity, and pre-eminent in strength,
Uncontrolled as water you will not be pre-eminent,
Because you went up to...
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Genesis 49:4
I. The first thing which strikes us in the instability of water is
that it has no cohesive shape of its own. It takes the form of the
vessel into which you pour it; it changes one form fo...
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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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_Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel._
INSTABILITY
I. The first thing which strikes us in the instability of water is
that IT HAS NO COHESIVE SHAPE OF ITS OWN. It takes the form of the
vessel int...
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STABILITY
Unstable as water. Genesis 49:4.
Most of you know the meaning of the word “unstable.” “Stable”
means reliable, firm, or constant; and a boy or girl who is
“unstable” lacks these good quali...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 49:3 REUBEN’S special standing as the
FIRSTBORN is taken away because of his shocking behavior with
Jacob’s concubine, Bilhah ...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 49:3_
THE BLESSING OF REUBEN
We seem to have in this, as in other instances, words of cursing
rather than of blessing. But in Genesis 49:28, Jacob’s speech...
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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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Unstable. James 1:6 2 Peter 2:14 2 Peter 3:16 thou shall not excel.
Heb. do not thou excel. Genesis 46:8...
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Thou shalt not excel — A being thou shalt have as a tribe, but not
an excellency. No judge, prophet, or prince, are found of that tribe,
nor any person of renown only Dathan and Abiram, who were noted...