Bible Dictionary: Faith: Jacob, in Blessing Joseph's Sons

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Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Nave's Topical Index

Library

Of the Sons of Joseph, whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing ...
... For when Jacob was blessing them, and laid ... of Israel, and the whole world of Abraham's
seed, the one according to the flesh, the other according to faith? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 42 of the sons of.htm

Chapter xlviii
... The Jews are said to use this formula of blessing to this day. ... But Jacob has a word
for Joseph in particular ... He states the fact with the calm courage of faith. ...
/.../leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlviii.htm

Genesis
... a substitute was providentially provided, and Abraham's faith, which had ... in the time
of famine (xlvii.), the dying Jacob blessing Joseph's sons (xlviii.), his ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/genesis.htm

The Twofold Wrestle --God's with Jacob and Jacob's with God
... delights to be held by the hand of faith, and ever ... and sweeter to us than it was
to Jacob, but also ... Not till now was he capable of receiving the full blessing. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the twofold wrestlegods with jacob.htm

Growth by Transplanting
... in some moods seems all the truth; but Jacob saw more ... of Joseph's sons, he laid there
the blessing of 'the ... the years few and evil, but grateful faith even here ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/growth by transplanting.htm

Hebrews xi. 20-22
... For how [except by faith] could a man sojourning in a ... regard to Abraham, may be said
also of Jacob, that they did not enjoy [3283] the blessing, but the ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxvi hebrews xi 20-22.htm

From Abraham to Egypt.
... will and evident obedience to the divine will indicated would seem to point to his
faith in God ... In Jacob's blessing on his sons and in Joseph's prophecy of ...
/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter iv from abraham to.htm

Chapter xlix
... standing on a low level of faith and godliness ... and to pronounce apodictically that
Jacob could not ... forth a few other features of this blessing that contribute ...
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Chapter xlvii
... monarch can offer him, Jacob here blesses as by an act and a display of true faith. ...
Again upon leaving Jacob, the man of God, bestows a blessing upon the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlvii.htm

Chapter l
... of promise, thereby testifying to his faith in the ... life was slowly shortening"Isaac
180, Jacob 147, Joseph ... these years Joseph enjoyed the blessing of seeing ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter l.htm