{"commentary":{"id":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","website":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamieson-Fausset-Brown_Bible_Commentary","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","licenseNotes":null,"licenseNotice":null,"englishName":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","language":"eng","textDirection":"rtl","sha256":"db3d4c8b3c1f32ef9d1430a57392e02bda3a17aac1f9bbe398461de021a3cb13","availableFormats":["json"],"listOfBooksApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/books.json","listOfProfilesApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/profiles.json","numberOfBooks":66,"totalNumberOfChapters":1187,"totalNumberOfVerses":17056,"totalNumberOfProfiles":0,"languageName":"English","languageEnglishName":"English"},"book":{"id":"GEN","commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Genesis","commonName":"Genesis","introduction":"GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (Pe2 1:21). \n \n\n\nNext: Genesis Chapter 1\n\n","order":1,"numberOfChapters":50,"sha256":"ec815a3918530d6e58baacb7273848b505bde282d2878c9c6d40c430ca66075d","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":50,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/50.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":50},"totalNumberOfVerses":529},"chapter":{"number":49,"content":[{"type":"verse","number":10,"content":["JUDAH--A high pre-eminence is destined to this tribe (Num 10:14; Jdg 1:2). Besides the honor of giving name to the Promised Land, David, and a greater than David--the Messiah--sprang from it. Chief among the tribes, \"it grew up from a lion's whelp\"--that is, a little power--till it became \"an old lion\"--that is, calm and quiet, yet still formidable. (Gen 49:8-12)\n \nuntil Shiloh come--Shiloh--this obscure word is variously interpreted to mean \"the sent\" (Joh 17:3), \"the seed\" (Isa 11:1), the \"peaceable or prosperous one\" (Eph 2:14) --that is, the Messiah (Isa 11:10; Rom 15:12); and when He should come, \"the tribe of Judah should no longer boast either an independent king or a judge of their own\" [CALVIN]. The Jews have been for eighteen centuries without a ruler and without a judge since Shiloh came, and \"to Him the gathering of the people has been.\"\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"content":["ISSACHAR-- (Gen 49:14-15)\n \na strong ass couching down between two burdens--that is, it was to be active, patient, given to agricultural labors. It was established in lower Galilee--a \"good land,\" settling down in the midst of the Canaanites, where, for the sake of quiet, they \"bowed their shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.\"\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"content":["DAN--though the son of a secondary wife, was to be \"as one of the tribes of Israel.\" (Gen 49:16-18)\n \nDan--\"a judge.\" \n \na serpent . . . an adder--A serpent, an adder, implies subtlety and stratagem; such was pre-eminently the character of Samson, the most illustrious of its judges.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":22,"content":["JOSEPH-- (Gen 49:22-26)\n \na fruitful bough, &c.--denotes the extraordinary increase of that tribe (compare Num 1:33-35; Jos 17:17; Deu 33:17). The patriarch describes him as attacked by envy, revenge, temptation, ingratitude; yet still, by the grace of God, he triumphed over all opposition, so that he became the sustainer of Israel; and then he proceeds to shower blessings of every kind upon the head of this favorite son. The history of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh shows how fully these blessings were realized.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":27,"content":["BENJAMIN (Gen 49:27-33)\n \nshall ravin like a wolf--This tribe in its early history spent its energies in petty or inglorious warfare and especially in the violent and unjust contest (Jdg. 19:1-20:48), in which it engaged with the other tribes, when, notwithstanding two victories, it was almost exterminated.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":28,"content":["all these are the twelve tribes of Israel--or ancestors. Jacob's prophetic words obviously refer not so much to the sons as to the tribes of Israel.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":29,"content":["he charged them--The charge had already been given and solemnly undertaken (Gen 47:31). But in mentioning his wishes now and rehearsing all the circumstances connected with the purchase of Machpelah, he wished to declare, with his latest breath, before all his family, that he died in the same faith as Abraham.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":33,"content":["when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons--It is probable that he was supernaturally strengthened for this last momentous office of the patriarch, and that when the divine afflatus ceased, his exhausted powers giving way, he yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.\n \n\n\n\nNext: Genesis Chapter 50\n\n"]}],"introduction":"PATRIARCHAL BLESSING. (Gen. 49:1-33)\n \nJacob called unto his sons--It is not to the sayings of the dying saint, so much as of the inspired prophet, that attention is called in this chapter. Under the immediate influence of the Holy Spirit he pronounced his prophetic benediction and described the condition of their respective descendants in the last days, or future times.\n \n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/49.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":49},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/50.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":50},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/48.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":48},"numberOfVerses":8}