Genesis 48:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Behold

Land

Genesis 12:5

Genesis 26:3

Genesis 37:1

General references

Hebrews 9:17

Bible References

Behold

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

“As for me, I am going the way of all of the earth. Be strong and be courageous like a man,

Do not trust in nobles,
in man, who cannot save.

“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

Now, Master,
You can dismiss Your slave in peace,
as You promised.

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.

without father, mother, or genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but resembling the Son of God—

remains a priest forever.

knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.

Land

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

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.

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

General references

For a will is valid only when people die, since it is never in force while the one who made it is living.