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Verse Genesis 48:12. _JOSEPH - BOWED HIMSELF WITH HIS FACE TO THE
EARTH._] This act of Joseph has been extravagantly extolled by Dr.
_Delaney_ and others. "When I consider him on his knees to God," s...
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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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BROUGHT THEM OUT FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES— We must suppose Jacob to be
sitting upon his bed, with his legs upon the ground, see ch. Genesis
49:33. and the children standing between his knees, while he e...
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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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‘Children’ does not mean young children. They were more than 19
years of age. These are the reasons why we know that. They were born
before the *famine began. (See Genesis 41:50.) Jacob came to Egypt...
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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 יֹּוצֵ֥א יֹוסֵ֛ף אֹתָ֖ם מֵ עִ֣ם
בִּרְכָּ֑י
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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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_Lap, ( gremio, breast,) after Jacob had embraced them; or from
between his knees, where they knelt to receive his blessing. --- Bowed
down, out of reverence to his father, and to beg of God that he w...
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I admire the filial reverence of Joseph to his dying father! Oh! what
an example worthy of imitation. Leviticus 19:32....
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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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12._And Joseph brought them out_. Moses explains more fully what he
had touched upon in a single word. Joseph brings forth his sons from
his own lap to his father’s knees, not only for the sake of hon...
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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 JOSEPH BROUGHT THEM OUT FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES,.... Either from
between his own, where they were kneeling, as he was sitting, in order
that they might be nearer his father, to receive his blessing...
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed
himself with his face to the earth.
Ver. 12. _From between his knees._] That is, From between his
father's knees, that he might place...
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_From between his knees_ Not his own, but _Jacob's_, between which
they stood, while Jacob kissed and embraced them, and from which
Joseph removed them, that they might not be burdensome to their aged...
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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 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, where Jacob had
held them in a fond embrace, AND HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH HIS FACE TO THE
EARTH, awaiting the blessing which his father was ready to gi...
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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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FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES; not his own knees, from which they had been
taken before, but Jacob's knees, between which they stood whilst Jacob
kissed and embraced them; from which Joseph removed them, par...
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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 48:12 Joseph H3130 brought H3318 (H8686) beside H5973 knees
H1290 down H7812 (H8691) face H639 earth...
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‘And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed
himself with his face to the earth.'
Joseph is filled with gratitude for what his father has done for his
sons. He raises them from wh...
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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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he bowed himself. Genesis 18:2 Genesis 19:1 Genesis 23:7 Genesis 33:3
Genesis 42: