22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. …
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. …
And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-27)He closes with the blessings of his best beloved sons, Joseph and Benjamin; with these he will breathe his last. I. The blessing of Joseph, which is very large and full. He is compared (Gen. 49:22) to a fruitful bough , or young tree; for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction; he owned it, Gen. 41:52. His two sons were as branches of a vine, or other spreading plant, running over…
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