Genesis 49:1
Then Jacob called for his sons, and said: 1 “Gather yourselves together, 1 that I may tell you what will happen to you in the future. 1
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2Assemble yourselves and listen, you sons of Jacob. 1 Listen to Israel, your father. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in distress, and when all these things will have come on you, in those later days you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 31:28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Psalms 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is for those who honor him, 1 and he makes his covenant known to them. 1
Isaiah 2:2It will be in the last days 1 that the mountain of Yahweh's house 1 will be established as the highest of the mountains, 1 and it will be raised up above the hills, 1 and all the nations will flow to it. 1
Isaiah 39:6'Look, the days are about to come when everything in your palace, the things that your ancestors stored away until this present day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says Yahweh.
Isaiah 53:1Who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? 1
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 →