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Genesis 49:28

in Genesis 49

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in Genesis 49

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, Whatever rebukes of God's word or providence we are under at any time, yet, as long as we have an interest in God's covenant, a place and a name among his people, and good hopes of a share in the heavenly Canaan, we must account ourselves blessed. The solemn charge Jacob gave them concerning his burial, which is a repetition of what he had before given to Joseph.

This site's exposition

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf

on Genesis 49:27-28

The youngest is given a wolf that tears prey morning and evening. The tribe's history answers to it through Judges 20, through Ehud and Saul, and through Paul, a Benjamite at Philippians 3:5. The closing line counts twelve tribes and says each was blessed with a blessing suitable to him.

This site's exposition

twelve in all

The sons are now counted as twelve tribes. Revelation 21:12 writes the names of the twelve tribes on the gates of the new Jerusalem. The sons of one man become the pattern for the people of God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Every one according to his blessing - That is, guided by the unerring Spirit of prophecy, Jacob now foretold to each of his sons all the important events which should take place during their successive generations, and the predominant characteristic of each tribe; and, at the same time, made some comparatively obscure references to the advent of the Messiah, and the redemption of the world by him.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֛לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • שִׁבְטֵ֥י[are] [the] tribes of

    shivteiH7626 →190 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • שְׁנֵ֣יםtwo [plus]

    sheneimH8147 →768 times

  • עָשָׂ֑רten

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • וְ֠זֹאתand this

    vezotH2063 →603 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[is that] which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֨רhe spoke

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • לָהֶ֤םto them

    lahem

  • אֲבִיהֶם֙father their

    ʾavihemH1 →1212 times

  • וַיְבָ֣רֶךְand he blessed

    vayvarekhH1288 →330 times

  • אוֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • אִ֛ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • כְּבִרְכָת֖וֹaccording to blessing his

    kevirkhatoH1293 →69 times

  • בֵּרַ֥ךְhe blessed

    berakhH1288 →330 times

  • אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 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

    Revelation 7:4

    And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:

    it leads to

    • Revelation 14:1

      Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

    • Revelation 14:3

      And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the…

    • Luke 22:30

      so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

    • Matthew 19:28

      Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…

  • Through

    Esther 8:11

    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 37:14–15

      The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

    • Esther 3:13

      And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on…

  • Through

    Numbers 23:24

    Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 49:27

      Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

  • Through

    1 Kings 18:31

    And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:34

      To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He…

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.