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Verse Genesis 48:11. _I HAD NOT THOUGHT TO SEE THY FACE_] There is
much delicacy and much tenderness in these expressions. He feels
himself now amply recompensed for his long grief and trouble on
acc...
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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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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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_NOW THE EYES OF ISRAEL WERE DIM FOR AGE, SO THAT HE COULD NOT SEE.
AND HE BROUGHT THEM NEAR UNTO HIM; AND HE KISSED THEM, AND EMBRACED
THEM._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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For many years, Jacob thought that Joseph was dead. (See Genesis
37:33.) That was why he did not expect to see Joseph’s face....
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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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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל ־יֹוסֵ֔ף
רְאֹ֥ה פ
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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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_Deprived. Hebrew, "I did not expect; or, I durst not pray " to God
for a thing which I thought impossible; I mean, the happiness of
seeing thee; and lo, God, &c._...
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Observe how Jacob refers all mercies into GOD'S gift. Reader are you a
partaker of divine grace? Are you a parent also? And have you a
well-grounded hope that any of your offspring are partakers of di...
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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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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 SAID UNTO JOSEPH, I HAD NOT THOUGHT TO SEE THY FACE,....
Some years ago he never expected to have seen him any more; he had
given him up for lost, as a dead man, when his sons brought him h...
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And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and,
lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Ver. 11. _I had not thought to see thy face._] God delights to outbid
the hopes of his peopl...
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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 said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face, he had
not even dared to suppose that so much joy would be his; AND, LO, GOD
HATH SHOWED ME ALSO THY SEED, these children....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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Genesis 48:11 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) Joseph H3130 thought
H6419 (H8765) see H7200 (H8800) face...
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‘And Israel said to Joseph, “I had not thought to see your face,
and lo, God has let me see your seed as well.”
The act of adoption fills him with gratitude to God and he cannot help
expressing his f...
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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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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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I had not. Genesis 37:33 Genesis 37:35 Genesis 42:36 Genesis 45:26
God....
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I had not thought to see thy face, (having many years given him up for
lost) and lo God hath shewed me also thy seed? — See here, How these
two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph saith, They a...