Genesis 49:1
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2Gather yourselves together, and hear me, sons of Jacob; hear Israel, hear your father.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30And + 4:30 Gr. all these words shall find you. Hebraism.all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.
Deuteronomy 31:28Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.
Isaiah 2:2For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be + 2:2 Or, conspicuous.glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.
Isaiah 39:6Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the things that are in thine house, and all that thy fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God hath said,
Isaiah 53:1O Lord, + 53:1 John 12. 38; Rom. 10. 16. who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been 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 →