Genesis 49:2
Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
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In The King James Version
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 34:12They repaid me evil for good, to the deprivation of my soul.
Proverbs 4:1Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
Proverbs 6:20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.
Proverbs 7:24Therefore, my son, hear me now, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
Isaiah 48:14Gather together, all of you, and listen. Who among them has announced these things? The Lord has loved him; he will do his will with Babylon, and his arm is upon the Chaldeans.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:2-5
Jacob's Prophecy Concerning His Sons. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befal you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then… Read the whole commentary →