Genesis 48:21

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Genesis 48:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible

19 But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

20 So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

22 And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

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Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

1 Kings 2:2

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.

1 Kings 2:3

And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,

1 Kings 2:4

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Psalms 146:4

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Zechariah 1:5

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Zechariah 1:6

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

Luke 2:29

“Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.

Acts 13:36

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

2 Timothy 4:6

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

Hebrews 7:8

In the case of the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the case of Melchizedek, it is affirmed that he lives on.

Hebrews 7:23

Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.

Hebrews 7:24

But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

2 Peter 1:14

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Genesis 15:14

But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Genesis 28:15

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Genesis 46:4

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.”

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 1:2

It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

Deuteronomy 1:4

This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.

Deuteronomy 1:5

On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

Deuteronomy 1:6

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

Deuteronomy 1:7

Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”

Deuteronomy 1:9

At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

Deuteronomy 1:12

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

Deuteronomy 1:13

Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”

Deuteronomy 1:14

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

Deuteronomy 1:15

So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.

Deuteronomy 1:16

At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 1:18

And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.

Deuteronomy 1:19

And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

Deuteronomy 1:20

I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

Deuteronomy 1:21

See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

Deuteronomy 1:22

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

Deuteronomy 1:23

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

Deuteronomy 1:24

They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

Deuteronomy 1:25

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 1:26

But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 1:27

You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 1:29

So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!

Deuteronomy 1:30

The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

Deuteronomy 1:32

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Deuteronomy 1:34

When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,

Deuteronomy 1:35

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

Deuteronomy 1:36

except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

Deuteronomy 1:37

The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

Deuteronomy 1:38

Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

Deuteronomy 1:39

And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

Deuteronomy 1:40

But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Deuteronomy 1:41

“We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1:42

But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”

Deuteronomy 1:43

So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1:44

Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.

Deuteronomy 1:45

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

Deuteronomy 1:46

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

Deuteronomy 31:8

The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

Joshua 1:5

No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 3:7

Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua 23:14

Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

Joshua 24:1

Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

Joshua 24:3

But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

Joshua 24:4

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Joshua 24:5

Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.

Joshua 24:6

When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

Joshua 24:7

So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Joshua 24:8

Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.

Joshua 24:9

Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

Joshua 24:10

but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

Joshua 24:11

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

Joshua 24:12

I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

Joshua 24:13

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’

Joshua 24:14

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:16

The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

Joshua 24:17

For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

Joshua 24:18

And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

Joshua 24:19

But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”

Joshua 24:21

“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

Joshua 24:23

“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

Joshua 24:24

So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

Joshua 24:25

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

Joshua 24:26

Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

Joshua 24:28

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

Joshua 24:29

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

Joshua 24:30

And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:31

Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

Joshua 24:33

Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Psalms 18:46

The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—

Genesis 12:5

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 37:1

Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.