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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Genesis 49

Chapter 49

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

Gather

Deuteronomy 31:12,28,29 33:1-29 Psalms 25:14 105:15 Isaiah 22:14 53:1 Daniel 2:47 Daniel 10:1 Amos 3:7 Luke 2:26 Romans 1:17,18 Hebrews 10:24,25 13:1 Revelation 4:1

last days

Numbers 24:14 Deuteronomy 4:30 31:29 Isaiah 2:2 39:6 Jeremiah 23:20 Daniel 2:28,29 Daniel 10:14 Micah 4:1 Acts 2:17 1 Timothy 4:1 2 Timothy 3:1 Hebrews 1:2

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

hearken

Psalms 34:11 Proverbs 1:8,9 4:1-4 5:1 6:20 7:1,24 8:32 23:22,26

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

my firstborn

29:32 46:8 48:18 Numbers 1:20 26:5 1 Chronicles 2:1 5:1,3

my might

Deuteronomy 21:17 Psalms 78:51 105:36

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Unstable

James 1:6-8 2 Peter 2:14 3:16

thou shalt not excel

Heb. do not thou excel.

46:8 Numbers 32:1-42 Deuteronomy 33:6

because

35:22 Deuteronomy 5:21 27:20 1 Chronicles 5:1 1 Corinthians 5:1

he went up to my couch

or, my couch is gone.

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Simeon

29:33,34 34:25-31 46:10,11 Proverbs 18:9

instruments, etc

or, their swords are weapons of violence.

34:25-29,31

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

O my soul

Judges 5:21 Psalms 42:5,11 43:5 103:1 Jeremiah 4:19 Luke 12:19

come

34:30 Psalms 5:10 26:4,5 28:3 94:20,21 139:19 Proverbs 1:11,15,16 12:5

secret

Deuteronomy 27:24 Psalms 26:9 64:2 Jeremiah 15:17

unto their

Psalms 1:1 26:9 94:20 2 Corinthians 6:14

honour

Psalms 16:9 30:12 57:8

a man

34:25,26,30

digged down a wall

or, houghed oxen.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Cursed

2 Samuel 13:15,22-28 Proverbs 26:24,25 27:3

I will divide

Joshua 19:1-9 21:1-45 1 Chronicles 4:24-31,39,40 6:65

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

shall praise

29:35 44:18-34 46:12 Deuteronomy 33:7 1 Chronicles 5:2 Psalms 76:1 Hebrews 7:14

thy hand

Numbers 1:27 10:14 26:22 Judges 1:1,2 20:18 2 Samuel 24:9 1 Kings 4:1-34 1 Chronicles 12:1-40 2 Chronicles 11:12-17 14:8 15:9 17:2,14-16 30:11 Psalms 18:40-43 78:68-71 Isaiah 9:7 Philemon 2:10,11 Hebrews 7:14 10:13 Revelation 5:5 11:15

the neck

Joshua 10:24 2 Samuel 22:41 Ezekiel 21:29

thy father's

27:29 37:7-10 42:6 2 Samuel 5:3

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

a lion's

Hosea 5:4,14 1 Corinthians 15:24 Revelation 5:5

he stooped

Numbers 23:24 24:9

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

sceptre

Numbers 24:17 Psalms 60:7 Jeremiah 30:21 Hosea 11:12 Ezekiel 19:11,14 Zechariah 10:11

lawgiver

Numbers 21:18 Psalms 60:7 108:8 Isaiah 33:22

between

Deuteronomy 28:57

until

Isaiah 9:6 11:1-5 62:11 Jeremiah 23:5,6 Ezekiel 21:27 Daniel 9:25 Matthew 1:21 Matthew 17:5 21:9 Luke 1:32,33 John 9:7 18:31 19:12,15

the gathering

Psalms 72:8-11 Isaiah 2:2 11:10,12,13 42:1,3,4 49:6,7,22,23 55:4,5 Isaiah 60:1,3-5 Ezekiel 21:27 Haggai 2:7 Zechariah 2:11 8:20-23 Matthew 25:32 Luke 1:32,33 2:30-32 John 12:32 Romans 15:12 2 Corinthians 5:10 Hebrews 7:14 Revelation 11:15

Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

his foal

Isaiah 63:1-3

he washed

1 Kings 4:20,25 2 Kings 18:32 Joel 3:18 Micah 4:4 Revelation 7:14 19:18

His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

Proverbs 23:29

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

30:20 Deuteronomy 33:18,19 Joshua 19:10-16

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

30:18 Deuteronomy 33:18 Joshua 19:17-23 Judges 5:15 10:1 1 Chronicles 12:32

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.

rest

Joshua 14:15 Judges 3:11 2 Samuel 7:1

bowed

Psalms 81:6 Ezekiel 29:18 Matthew 23:4

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

30:6 Numbers 10:25 Deuteronomy 33:22 Judges 13:2,24,25 15:20 18:1,2

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.

shall be

Judges 14:1-15 16:22-30 18:22-31 1 Chronicles 12:35

an adder

Heb. an arrow-snake.

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Psalms 14:7 25:6 40:1 62:1,5 85:7 119:41,166,174 123:2 130:5 Isaiah 8:17 25:9 36:8 30:18 33:2 Lamentations 3:25 Micah 7:7 Matthew 1:21 Mark 15:43 Luke 1:30 2:25,30 23:51 Romans 8:19,25 Galatians 5:5 1 Thessalonians 1:10

Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

30:11 46:16 Numbers 32:1-42 Deuteronomy 33:20,21 Joshua 13:8 Judges 10:1-11 1 Chronicles 3:18-22 5:11-22,26

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

30:13 46:17 Deuteronomy 33:24,25 Joshua 19:24-31

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

30:8 46:24 Deuteronomy 33:23 Joshua 19:32-39 Judges 4:6,10 5:18 Psalms 18:33,34 Matthew 4:15,16

Nepthalim

Verse 22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

a fruitful

30:22-24 41:52 46:27 48:1,5,16,19,20 Numbers 32:1-42 Deuteronomy 33:17 Joshua 16:1-10 17:14-17 Psalms 1:1-3 128:1,3 Ezekiel 19:11

branches

Heb. daughters.

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

37:4,18,24,28 39:7-20 42:21 Psalms 64:3 118:13 John 16:33 Acts 14:22

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:)

his bow

Nehemiah 6:9 Psalms 27:14 28:8 89:1 Colossians 1:11 2 Timothy 4:17

were made

Job 29:20 Psalms 18:32-35 37:14,15 44:7 Zechariah 10:12 Romans 14:4

the mighty

35:10,11 Exodus 3:6 Psalms 18:1,30,32,34 132:2,5 Isaiah 29:24 60:16

the shepherd

45:5,7,11 47:12 50:21 Numbers 27:16-18 Deuteronomy 34:9 Joshua 1:1-9 24:1-33 Psalms 80:1

the stone

Deuteronomy 32:4 Psalms 118:22 Isaiah 28:16 Zechariah 3:9 Matthew 21:42 Mark 12:10 Luke 20:17 Acts 4:11 Ephesians 2:20 1 Peter 2:4-8

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 of the breasts, and of the womb:

the God

28:13,21 35:3 43:23 Deuteronomy 8:17 28:12 33:1,13-17

the Almighty

17:1 35:11

with blessings

Deuteronomy 28:2-12 33:13 Psalms 84:11 85:12 Matthew 6:33 1 Corinthians 3:21,22 Ephesians 1:3 Philippians 4:19 1 Timothy 4:8

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

have prevailed

27:27-29,39,40 28:3,4 Ephesians 1:3

everlasting hills

Deuteronomy 33:15 Psalms 89:36 Isaiah 54:10 Ezekiel 37:25,26 Jonah 2:6 Habakkuk 3:6

they shall

Deuteronomy 33:16 Psalms 132:18

was separate

37:28 Numbers 6:2 Psalms 105:17-22 Isaiah 66:5 Acts 7:9

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

ravin

35:18 46:21 Deuteronomy 33:12

a wolf

Numbers 23:24 Judges 3:15-29 20:21,25 1 Samuel 11:4-11 14:1-15 17:1-58 Acts 8:3 9:1 Philippians 3:5

at night

Jeremiah 5:6 Ezekiel 22:25,27 Hosea 13:7,8 Zephaniah 3:3 Matthew 7:15 10:16 Acts 20:29

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

the twelve

Numbers 23:24 Esther 8:7,9,11 9:1-10 Ezekiel 39:8-10 Zechariah 14:1-7

every one

35:22 Exodus 28:21 1 Kings 18:31 Acts 26:7 James 1:1 Revelation 7:4

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

gathered

Romans 12:6-21

bury me

15:15 25:8-17 35:29 Hebrews 12:23

in the cave

47:30 2 Samuel 19:37

Ephron

50:13

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Abraham bought

23:8

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

23:3,16-20 25:9 35:29 47:30 50:13 Acts 7:16

The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

23:17-20

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

had made

1,24-26 Joshua 24:27-29 Hebrews 11:22

and yielded

29 15:5 25:8,17 35:29 Job 5:26 14:10 30:23 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Isaiah 57:1,2 Luke 2:29 Hebrews 11:13-16 12:23