Genesis 49:1
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30After all the things aforesaid shall and thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.
Deuteronomy 31:28Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Psalms 25:14The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.
Isaiah 2:2And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah 39:6Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 53:1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:1
This chapter is a prophecy; the likest to it we have yet met with was that of Noah, ch. ix. 25 , &c. Jacob is here upon his death-bed, making his will. He put it off till now, because dying men's words are apt to make deep impressions, and to be remembered long: what he said here, he could not say when he would, but as the Spirit gave him utterance, who chose this time, that divine strength might be perfected in his weakness. The twelve sons of Jacob were, in their day, men of renown, but the twelve tribes of… Read the whole commentary →