Bible Strands
Genesis 48:22
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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jacob addresses Joseph during his final days, assigning a specific territorial portion to him before his death.
The words — The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (nātattî) translates literally as "I give," while שְׁכֶם (Šᵉkhem) means "a shoulder," denoting the elevated ridge or plot of land Jacob claims to have captured from the Amorites.
The thread — This allocation aligns with the plot near Sychar noted in John 4:5 and the Shechem burial site for Joseph’s bones in Joshua 24:32, while 1 Chronicles 5:2 highlights the shift of the birthright to Joseph.
Why it lands — The verse records a patriarch’s concrete land grant to a favored son, establishing a physical inheritance that Scripture later uses to anchor Joseph’s lineage and burial.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Cross-references
- John 4:5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 5:2 And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
- Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- Genesis 33:19 And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 34:28 They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
- Deuteronomy 21:17 Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
- Joshua 17:14 Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
- Judges 11:23 Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?
- Amos 2:9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.