Genesis 48:16

Jacob calls on the Angel who redeemed him from all evil to bless the boys and let them grow into a multitude. He entrusts his grandsons to God's redeeming care.

Cross-references · 39

• Ps 34:22The LORD redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.
• Gen 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
• Gen 28:13–15And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
• Gen 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
• Ps 121:7The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Acts 15:17so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things
• Num 26:28–37The descendants of Joseph included the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.
• Josh 17:17So Joshua said to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—“You have many people and great strength. You shall not have just one allotment,
• Heb 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• John 17:15I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
• Amos 9:12that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
• 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• Gen 16:7–13Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
• Gen 1:21–22So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
• Gen 31:11–13In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
• Ps 34:2My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
• Ps 34:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
• Num 1:46And all those counted totaled 603,550.
• Rom 8:23Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
• Exod 23:20–21Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
• Exod 1:7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
• Exod 3:2–6There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
• Jer 14:9Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
• Judg 6:21–24Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
• Judg 13:21–22And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
• Judg 2:1–4Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
• Deut 28:10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
• Deut 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
• 2 Chr 7:14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
• Isa 47:4Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.
• Hos 12:4–5Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
• Mal 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 7:30–35After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
• 1 Cor 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

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