Genesis 49:22-26 NKJV,NLT

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 49:22-26

“Joseph is the son of a fruitful tree, The son of a fruitful tree by a spring, His daughters run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him and persecuted him, But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, From there is the shepherd, the Rock of Israel, Even by the God of your father who will help you, And by Shaddai who will bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep which... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 49:1-28

Genesis 49:1-Hosea : . The Blessing of Jacob.— This poem had an independent origin, but if it was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances on the tribes, but was from the first put in the lips of Jacob, though expansions and alterations have, no doubt, taken place. It need hardly be said that it is not the utterance of Jacob himself. It would be inexplicable that his vision should fix just on the period here... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:22

A fruitful bough, in regard of those two numerous tribes which proceeded from his two sons. By a well, or fountain, or water-course, which situation doth much further the growth of trees. See Psalms 1:3; Ezekiel 19:10. Whose branches run over the wall, i. e: which is planted by a wall, whose heat furthers its growth no less than the moisture of the water doth. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:23

i.e. His adversaries, as well his own brethren as his master and mistress; with their scoffs, and slanders, and injuries, which in the Scripture are oft compared to arrows. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:24

His bow, wherewith he opposed his enemies; which was no military bow, but that which he opposed to all their injuries, to wit, his own virtue, his innocence, his patience, his temperance, his faith and hope in God, whereby he resisted and vanquished all the temptations and difficulties which he met with, so that all his enemies could neither defile nor destroy him. The mighty God of Jacob, i.e. my God; the noun for the pronoun, which is frequent. When men forsook and persecuted him, my God and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:25

Here he explains and determines that doubtful expression from these, by adding even by (or rather from as this particle mem properly signifies, and was just now used) the God of thy Father, i.e. who hath chosen and loved they father, and made a league with him, and blessed him with all manner of blessings. Blessings of heaven above, i.e. the sweet and powerful influences of the heavenly bodies, and the dews and rains which fall from heaven, whereby the fruits of the earth are produced in great... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:26

The blessings which I thy father have conferred upon thee, are much more considerable than those which I received from my father Isaac, or from my grandfather Abraham This was true, 1. In the extent of the blessings; Ishmael was excluded from Abraham’s blessing, and my brother excluded from Isaac’s blessing, but both Joseph’s children are comprehended in Jacob’s blessing. 2. In the distinctness and clearness of them; for that land of Canaan which was transmitted to Isaac and to Jacob only in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 49:22-27

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 49:22. Whose branches run over the wall.] “Transcend all the usual boundaries of a well-enclosed garden. Joseph is, in prospect, the twofold tribe that bursts the bounds assigned to a twelfth of the chosen people, and overspreads the area of two tribes.” (Murphy.)—Genesis 49:24. The shepherd the stone of Israel.] “His rock at Bethel, on whose support he slept as he pillowed his head upon the stone.” (Lange) “The fostering guardian as well as the solid foundation of his... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 49:1-33

Genesis 48:0 and 49 (with Deuteronomy 33:0 and Judges 5:0 ) Jacob's blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not consist of one person only, but of a people or nation. As the patriarchal dispensation ceases it secures to the tribes all the blessing it has itself contained. The distinguishing features which Jacob depicts in the blessing of his sons were found in all the generations of the tribes, and displayed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 49:23-24

Genesis 49:23-24 These picturesque words are part of one of the oldest pieces of poetry in the Bible the dying Jacob's prophetic blessing of his sons. Of these sons, there are two over whom his heart seems especially to pour itself Judah, the ancestor of the royal tribe, and Joseph. The text contains in vivid metaphor the earliest utterance of a very familiar truth. I. Strength for conflict by contact with the strength of God is the lesson it conveys. The word here rendered "made strong" might... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 49:22-26

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 49:1-28

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 49:26

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 49:22-27

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 49:1-33

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 49:23-24

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