Genesis 49:22
Joseph, you will have many descendants [MET]. Their children will be as many as the fruit on a vine near a spring of water, whose branches extend over a wall.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
In Context
23Their enemies will attack them fiercely, and shoot at them with bows and arrows and pursue them.
Cross References
Genesis 41:52He named his second son Ephraim, which means ‘to have children’, because, he said, “God has given me children here in this land where I have suffered.”
Genesis 48:1Some time later, someone told Joseph, “ Hey, your father is ill.” When Joseph heard that, he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, to see his father.
Genesis 48:15Then he ◄blessed/asked God to bless► Joseph and his sons, saying, “My grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac conducted their lives as God desired, and to this very day God has led me and taken care of me as a shepherd leads and cares for his sheep [MET].
Genesis 48:19But his father refused, saying, “I know that, my son, I know what I am doing. Manasseh’s descendants will also become a people-group, and they will become important. But his younger brother’s descendants will become greater than his will. His descendants will become several nations.”
Deuteronomy 33:13“ say this about the tribes of Joseph: I desire/hope that Yahweh will bless their land by giving them rain/dew from the sky and water from deep in the ground,
Joshua 17:14The people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh said to Joshua, “You allotted to us only one area of land, but there are a lot of us. Yahweh has blessed us very much with the result that our tribe has grown very large. So why did you give us only a small part of the land [RHQ]?”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:14-22
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I… Read the whole commentary →