Genesis 49:28
These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them and blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.
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In Context
27Benjamin is a ravening wolf. In the morning he devours prey. and at evening divides the spoil.
Cross References
Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and lay with his father’s concubine Bilhah and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Esther 8:9On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is the month of Sivan), the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Mordecai instructed an edict was issued to the Jews, to the satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia in their own script and their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to be put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them.
Zechariah 14:1A day is coming for the Lord, when your plundered possessions will be divided while you watch.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:23-28
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings… Read the whole commentary →