Genesis 49:26 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The blessing of thy father, etc. - The blessings which thy father now prays for and pronounces are neither temporal nor transitory; they shall exceed in their duration the eternal mountains, and in their value and spiritual nature all the conveniences, comforts, and delicacies which the everlasting hills can produce. They shall last when the heavens and the earth are no more, and shall extend throughout eternity. They are the blessings which shall be communicated to the world by means of the Messiah.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בִּרְכֹ֣ת	bir.Khot	[the] blessings of	H1293 →
אָבִ֗יךָ	'a.Vi.kha	father your	H1 →
גָּֽבְרוּ֙	ga.ve.Ru	they have prevailed	H1396 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
בִּרְכֹ֣ת	bir.Khot	[the] blessings of	H1293 →
הוֹרַ֔י	ho.Rai	[the men who] conceived me	H2029 →
עַֽד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
תַּאֲוַ֖ת	ta.'a.Vat	desire of	H8379 →
גִּבְעֹ֣ת	giv.'Ot	hills of	H1389 →
עוֹלָ֑ם	o.Lam	antiquity	H5769 →
תִּֽהְיֶ֙ין֙	tih.Yein	may they be[long]	H1961 →
לְרֹ֣אשׁ	le.Rosh	to [the] head of	H7218 →
יוֹסֵ֔ף	yo.Sef	Joseph	H3130 →
וּלְקָדְקֹ֖ד	u.le.ka.de.Kod	and to the scalp	H6936 →
נְזִ֥יר	ne.Zir	[the] prince of	H5139 →
אֶחָֽיו׃ פ	'e.Chav	brothers his	H251 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jonah 2:6
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
leads to
- Psalms 30:3
  O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
Through
Psalms 132:18
I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”
leads to
- Psalms 35:26
  May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
- Job 8:22
  Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
- Luke 1:32–33
  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
Through
Psalms 89:36
his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
leads to
- Psalms 72:5
  May they fear him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains, through all generations.
- Psalms 89:29
  I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Through
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
leads to
- Nahum 1:5
  The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
- Deuteronomy 33:15
  with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

Featured studies on this passage

Rebecca and Eliezer — Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Walks through Genesis 49

Rebekah: Genesis 24–27 · MannaFest

Open the study →

Walks through Genesis 49

The Seed Promise

The Bible's oldest and longest prophecy, traced through twelve progressive narrowings from Eden to Bethlehem — each stop eliminating candidates until only one person could fulfill it.

Open the study →