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 34:22Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
• Gen 48:5Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
• Gen 28:13–15Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.
• Gen 49:22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
• Ps 121:7Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Acts 15:17That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.
• Num 26:28–37The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
• Josh 17:17Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;
• 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 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• John 17:15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
• Amos 9:12that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• Gen 16:7–13Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
• Gen 1:21–22God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
• Gen 31:11–13The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
• Ps 34:2My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
• Ps 34:7Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
• Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
• Num 1:46even all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
• Rom 8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
• Exod 23:20–21“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
• Exod 1:7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
• Exod 3:2–6Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
• Jer 14:9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
• Judg 6:21–24Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
• Judg 13:21–22But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.
• Judg 2:1–4Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
• Deut 28:10All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
• Deut 33:17The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
• 2 Chr 7:14if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• Isa 47:4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
• Hos 12:4–5Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
• Mal 3:1“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Acts 7:30–35“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
• 1 Cor 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.