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Genesis 48:22

in Genesis 48

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

KJV

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

This verse in Genesis 48

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

(Verse 22.) And I gave ((Or, do)) to you Sicima, the special one, over your brothers, which I received from the hands of the Amorites with my sword and arrow. Sicima, according to Greek and Latin custom, is declined. Otherwise, in Hebrew it is called Sichem, as John the Evangelist also testifies (IV, 5): although erroneously, it is read as Sichar, the error has prevailed: and now it is the city of Neapolis, the city of the Samaritans.

This site's exposition

the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites

The Hebrew word behind the ridge of land is shechem, a shoulder of ground. Jerome and Matthew Henry read it as the town of Shechem and the parcel Jacob bought there at Genesis 33:19. Genesis never tells of taking it with sword and bow. Joshua 24:32 buries Joseph's bones in that plot, and John 4:5 sets Jesus on the same ground.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.2 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

After he blessed the sons and promoted the younger ahead of the elder by way of forecasting the future, he wanted to convince Joseph that it was not idly or to no purpose that he had done this but to foretell what was due to happen. So he predicted his own death and the fact that they would return from foreign parts to Canaan, the land of their ancestors, and raised sound hope in them so as to cheer them up with the expectation. The hope of good things to come, after all, always mitigates the troubles of the present life.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

These lands he settled upon Joseph; mention is made of this grant, John iv. Pursuant to it, this parcel of ground was given to the tribe of Ephraim as their right, and the lot was never cast upon it; and in it Joseph's bones were buried, which perhaps Jacob had an eye to as much as to any thing in this settlement.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

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Moreover, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Moreover I have given to thee one portion - שכם אחד shechem achad, one shechem or one shoulder. We have already seen the transactions between Jacob and his family on one part, and Shechem and the sons of Hamor on the other.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren--This was near Shechem (Ge 33:18; Joh 4:5; also Jos 16:1; And it is probable that the Amorites, having seized upon it during one of his frequent absences, the patriarch, with the united forces of his tribe, recovered it from them by his sword and his bow.

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The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַאֲנִ֞יand I

    vaaniH589874 times

  • נָתַ֧תִּֽיI give

    natatiH54142011 times

  • לְךָ֛to you

    lekha

  • שְׁכֶ֥םa shoulder

    shekhemH792621 times

  • אַחַ֖דone

    ʾachadH259971 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • אַחֶ֑יךָbrothers your

    ʾacheikhaH251630 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • לָקַ֙חְתִּי֙I took

    lakachtiH3947966 times

  • מִיַּ֣דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH30271618 times

  • הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH56787 times

  • בְּחַרְבִּ֖יby sword my

    becharbiH2719413 times

  • וּבְקַשְׁתִּֽי׃ פand by bow my

    uvekashtiH719876 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    John 4:5

    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 33:19

      And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 24:32

      And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

  • Through

    Genesis 15:16

    In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 21:26

      He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

    • Daniel 8:23

      In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

    • Exodus 12:40

      Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

    • Matthew 23:32–35

      Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 5:2

    And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 2:6

      ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people…

    • Micah 5:2

      But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828, Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Public domain.
The Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828, Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.