Genesis 48:22

Ephraim's Greater Blessing

²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. ²² I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”

Amorite

Amorites

Shechem

Joshua 24:32

As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

John 4:5

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Genesis 15:16

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

Genesis 33:19

And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

Genesis 34:28

They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.

Deuteronomy 21:17

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

Joshua 17:14-18

Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?"

Judges 11:23

So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?

1 Chronicles 5:2

though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

Ezekiel 47:13

Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

Amos 2:9

"Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.