Genesis 48:1
Sometime after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is sick.” So Joseph went to see him, taking with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
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2When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” he gathered his strength and sat up in bed.
Cross References
Genesis 46:20The sons Joseph had in the land of Egypt by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On: Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 Kings 13:14Elisha had become ill with a disease that would eventually kill him. Jehoash, king of Israel, went to visit him, and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and the horsemen of Israel!”
Job 42:16Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact four generations.
John 11:3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus: “Lord, your close friend is sick.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 48:1
The time drawing nigh that Israel must die, having, in the former chapter, given order about his burial, in this he takes leave of his grand-children by Joseph, and in the next of all his children. Thus Jacob's dying words are recorded, because he then spoke by a spirit of prophecy; Abraham's and Isaac's are not. God's gifts and graces shine forth much more in some saints than in others upon their death-beds. The Spirit, like the wind, blows where it listeth. In this chapter, I. Joseph, hearing of his father's… Read the whole commentary →