Genesis 48:15

Jacob blesses Joseph, invoking the God before whom Abraham and Isaac walked and who has shepherded him all his life. He confesses God's lifelong faithful care.

Cross-references · 32

• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Heb 11:21By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
• Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
• Eccl 6:7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
• Eccl 5:18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
• Eccl 5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
• Eccl 2:24–25There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 1 Tim 6:6–10But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• 1 Cor 10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
• Gen 24:20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
• Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
• Matt 6:25–34Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
• Deut 33:1This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
• 1 Kgs 3:6Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
• Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
• Jer 8:2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
• Gen 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
• Gen 28:20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
• Gen 28:22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
• Gen 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
• Gen 5:22–24After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
• Gen 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
• Gen 27:4Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
• Gen 49:24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
• Ps 103:4–5who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
• Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
• 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
• Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

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