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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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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...
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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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_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...
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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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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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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...
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לִֽ ישׁוּעָתְךָ֖ קִוִּ֥יתִי יְהוָֽה׃...
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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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(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....
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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....
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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THE BLESSING UPON ZEBULUN, ISSACHAR, AND DAN...
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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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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...
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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...
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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 49:18 waited H6960 (H8765) salvation H3444 LORD H3068
Psalms 14:7, Psalms 25:6,...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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 49:16 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...
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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...
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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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Psalms 14:7 Psalms 25:6 Psalms 40:1 Psalms 62:1 Psalms 62:5...
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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...