SEV Biblia, Chapter 48:2
Y se hizo saber a Jacob, diciendo: He aquí tu hijo José viene a ti. Entonces se esforzó Israel, y se sentó sobre la cama;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 48:2
Verse 2. Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.] He had been confined to his bed before, (see chap. xlvii. 31,) and now, hearing that Joseph was come to see him, he made what efforts his little remaining strength would admit, to sit up in bed to receive his son. This verse proves that a bed, not a staff, is intended in the preceding chapter, chap. xlvii. 31.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The death-beds of believers, with the prayers and counsels of dyin persons, are suited to make serious impressions upon the young, the gay, and the prosperous: we shall do well to take children on suc occasions, when it can be done properly. If the Lord please, it is very desirable to bear our dying testimony to his truth, to his faithfulness, and the pleasantness of his ways. And one would wish s to live, as to give energy and weight to our dying exhortations. All true believers are blessed at their death, but all do not depar equally full of spiritual consolations. Jacob adopted Joseph's tw sons. Let them not succeed their father, in his power and grandeur i Egypt; but let them succeed in the inheritance of the promise made to Abraham. Thus the aged dying patriarch teaches these young persons to take their lot with the people of God. He appoints each of them to be the head of a tribe. Those are worthy of double honour, who, throug God's grace, break through the temptations of worldly wealth an preferment, to embrace religion in disgrace and poverty. Jacob wil have Ephraim and Manasseh to know, that it is better to be low, and in the church, than high, and out of it.
Original Hebrew
ויגד 5046 ליעקב 3290 ויאמר 559 הנה 2009 בנך 1121 יוסף 3130 בא 935 אליך 413 ויתחזק 2388 ישׂראל 3478 וישׁב 3427 על 5921 המטה׃ 4296
