Lesson 24 – Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
Lesson 24 – Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
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Scripture Passage: Genesis 47-48
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OPEN IT
1. What is the most important promise you have made?
EXPLORE IT
2. What happened when the time for Jacob to die drew near? (47:28-31)
3. What did Joseph do when he heard that his father was ill? (48:1-2)
4. What did Jacob tell Joseph? (48:3-7)
5. What did Jacob ask Joseph? (48:8-10)
6. What did Jacob say he never expected? (48:11)
7. Whom did Joseph bring before Jacob, and what did Jacob do? (48:13-14)
8. What did Jacob say when he blessed Joseph? (48:15-16)
9. What concerned Joseph, and what did he ask Jacob to do about it? (48:17-18)
10. How did Jacob respond to Joseph's request? (48:19-20)
11. What did Jacob tell Joseph, and what responsibility did he give him? (48:21-22)
GET IT
12. Why is it important to keep one's promises?
13. When is it easy to keep promises? Break them?
APPLY IT
14. What promise or commitment do you need to keep faithfully this week?
Explore It Answers
This section is designed to prompt thoughts about how and why to derive each scripture-based answer, so the actual answer is based upon individual study and may not be fully disclosed here. Here, also, are parallel verses for the key scripture texts.
Biblical Answer 2
What happened when the time for Jacob to die drew near? (47:28-31)
Key Scripture: Genesis 47:28-31 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 3
What did Joseph do when he heard that his father was ill? (48:1-2)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:1-2 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 4
What did Jacob tell Joseph? (48:3-7)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:3-7 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 1:27; Genesis 9:6; James 3:9
Biblical Answer 5
What did Jacob ask Joseph? (48:8-10)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:8-10 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 44:33-34; John 15:13; Romans 5:7-8
Biblical Answer 6
What did Jacob say he never expected? (48:11)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:11 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 9:6-7; Revelation 5:5
Biblical Answer 7
Whom did Joseph bring before Jacob, and what did Jacob do? (48:13-14)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:13-14 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 8
What did Jacob say when he blessed Joseph? (48:15-16)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:15-16 | Parallel Texts: Acts 7:9-10; Psalm 105:17-19; Romans 8:28
Biblical Answer 9
What concerned Joseph, and what did he ask Jacob to do about it? (48:17-18)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:17-18 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 10
How did Jacob respond to Joseph's request? (48:19-20)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:19-20 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 11
What did Jacob tell Joseph, and what responsibility did he give him? (48:21-22)
Key Scripture: Genesis 48:21-22 | Parallel Texts: Psalm 24:1; Acts 17:28; Romans 14:12
Commentary Summary
In Genesis 47-48, Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh highlights doctrinal themes such as God’s character, human accountability, and the certainty of His redemptive purpose. The passage emphasizes the character of God, human accountability, and the certainty of His covenant purposes. The emphasis is theological, asking what the text teaches about creation, covenant, judgment, grace, salvation, and the trustworthiness of God. This summary is designed to identify the major truths being taught, not merely repeat the narrative details.
In Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh, the flow of Genesis 47-48 emphasizes practical faith, obedience, and response to God. The lesson calls readers to trust God, obey His word, and respond to Him with reverence and faith. The focus here is pastoral and applicational, showing how the lesson challenges the reader to trust, repent, endure, worship, and walk in obedience. This summary is intentionally more devotional and exhortational so it does not simply duplicate the doctrinal wording used in the other commentary summaries.
Within the broader storyline of Genesis and the Bible as a whole, Genesis 47-48 helps move forward the pattern of promise, failure, mercy, and restoration that runs through Scripture. This section advances the book of Genesis by showing how God preserves His promise and moves the biblical story forward. This summary is shaped to sound more like a Bible Project overview by emphasizing literary flow, biblical themes, and how the lesson contributes to the unified story of Scripture. The goal is to locate the passage in the wider narrative rather than repeat the same doctrinal or devotional emphasis.
Last Week
THINK ABOUT THIS: Christ's sufferings and obedience have obtained a vast treasure of blessings for perishing sinners. Unlike Joseph, He offers them for free to all who come to Him. But like Joseph, Christ makes all whom He saves into servants of God to do His will.
Next Week
The promise of the land is especially emphasized in the testament of Jacob (49:1-27). There Jacob functions as a prophet, and his words predict aspects of the history of the tribes of Israel in the land of Canaan. For the most part Jacob's blessings on his sons were fulfilled from the time of the judges and into the time of the Israelite monarchy.
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