Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Seventeen

General references

Bible References

Seventeen

Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s [secondary] wives; and Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

The whole age

Genesis 47:8
And Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
Psalm 119:84

How many are the days of Your servant [which he must endure]?
When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

General references

Genesis 35:28
Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.