Genesis 48:4
and said to me, “I will make you fruitful, and numerous, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.”
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Genesis 13:15for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
Genesis 17:8I will give to you, and to your descendants after your, the land where you are now foreigners, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.’
Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you. I will make your children as many as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, so that they will conquer their enemies.
Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and numerous, so that you may become a great people,
Genesis 32:12Remember your promise to make me prosper and my descendants as many as the sand of the seashore, uncountable.’
Genesis 46:3Then God said, ‘I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 48:2-8
Jacob's Last Illness. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a… Read the whole commentary →