Genesis 49:1

And Iacob called for his sonnes, and sayde: Come together, that I may tell you what shall come on you in the last dayes.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Gather ye together, & heare ye sonnes of Iacob, hearken vnto Israel your father.

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Cross References

Isaiah 2:2And [this] shall come to passe in the latter dayes: the hyll of the Lordes house shalbe prepared in the heyght of the mountaynes, and shalbe hygher then the hylles, and all nations shall preasse vnto hym.

Isaiah 39:6Beholde, the tyme wyll come that euery thyng which is in thyne house, and all that thy progenitours haue layde vp in store vntyll this day, shalbe caryed to Babylon, and nothing left behynde, thus saith the Lorde.

Isaiah 53:1But who hath geuen credence vnto our preaching? or to whom is the arme of the Lorde knowen?

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 →

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