Gen 48 | TSK | STEP | Joseph with his sons visits his sick father. Jacob strengthens himself to bless them. He repeats God's promise. He takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own sons. He tells Joseph of his mother's grave. He blesses Ephraim and Manasseh. He prefers the younger before the elder. He prophesies their return to Canaan. thy father. his two sons.

he bowed himself.Joseph thus shewed that his external greatness did not render him forgetful of the respect due to his father. The Egyptians were remarkable for the reverence paid to old age: "for if a young person meet his senior, he instantly turns aside to make way for him; if an aged person enter an apartment, the youth always rise from their seats;" and Mr. Savary observes, that the same reverence is still paid to old age in Egypt.

18:2; 19:1; 23:7; 33:3; 42:6; Ex 20:12; 34:8; Le 19:3,32; 1Ki 2:19

2Ki 4:37; Pr 31:28; Eph 6:1

his right hand.

Ex 15:6; Ps 110:1; 118:16

and laid.

Nu 8:10,18; De 34:9; Mt 19:13,15; 6:5; 16:18; Lu 4:40; 13:13; Ac 6:6

Ac 8:17-19; 13:3; 1Ti 4:14; 5:22

guiding.

firstborn.

18; 41:51; 46:20

blessed.

16; 27:4; 28:3; 49:28; De 33:1; Heb 11:21

did walk.

5:22-24; 6:9; 17:1; 24:20; 1Ki 3:6; Ps 16:8; Isa 30:21; Jer 8:2

Lu 1:6; 1Co 10:31; 2Co 1:12; Col 2:6; 1Th 2:12

fed me.

28:20,22; Ps 23:1; 37:3; 103:4,5; Ec 2:24,25; 5:12,18; 6:7

Isa 33:16; Mt 6:25-34; 1Ti 6:6-10

Angel.

16:7-13; 28:15; 31:11-13; Ex 3:2-6; 23:20,21; Jud 2:1-4; 6:21-24

Jud 13:21,22; Ps 34:7,22; 121:7; Isa 47:4; 63:9; Ho 12:4,5; Mal 3:1

Ac 7:30-35; 1Co 10:4,9

redeemed.

Ps 34:2; Mt 6:13; Joh 17:15; Ro 8:23; 2Ti 4:18; Tit 2:14

my name.

5; 32:28; De 28:10; 2Ch 7:14; Jer 14:9; Am 9:12; Ac 15:17

grow into. Heb. as fishes do increase.

1:21,22; Nu 1:46; 26:34,37Fish are the most prolific of all animals: a tench lays 1,000 eggs, a carp 20,000, and Leuwenhoek counted in a middling sized cod, 9,384,000.

a multitude.

49:22; Ex 1:7; Nu 26:28-37; De 33:17; Jos 17:17

laid his.

displeased him. Heb. was evil in his eyes.

28:8; 38:10; Nu 11:1; 22:34; *marg:

1Sa 16:7; 1Ki 16:25; 1Ch 21:7; Pr 24:18; Ro 9:7,8,11

Not so.

19:18; Ex 10:11; Mt 25:9; Ac 10:14; 11:8

for this.

27:15; 29:26; 43:33; 49:3

said, I know it.

14; 17:20,21; 25:28; Nu 1:33-35; 2:19-21; De 33:17; Isa 7:17