 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 pages
...Joseph with great love. Yes, my child, in language which is figurative, but very beautiful, he said : Joseph is a fruitful bough, Even a fruitful bough...Whose branches run over the wall. The archers have surd y grieved him, And shot at him, and hated him. Bat his bow abode in strength, And the arms of... | |
 | Edward Irving - Incarnation - 1828 - 654 pages
...blessing Joseph, the head of their tribes, the patriarch Jacob thus expresseth himself, Gen.xlix. 22: " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." This refers to the exceeding populousness of the tribes proceeding from him. Ver. 23 : "The archers... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...excellency of the power was not of the weapons, but of God — and that, if his bow abode in strength, the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. It is therefore called the arrow of the Lord's deliverance ; and by which the Syrians were to be vanquished... | |
 | Francis Geach Crossman - 1830 - 366 pages
...God is in his favour too; the vision is as clear as he could desire it, he sees and is satisfied. " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel." These words are so descriptive of the one great... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - Tadmur (Syria) - 1830 - 48 pages
...Jlrcher under this figure, alludes to the words which Jacob on his death-bed addressed to Joseph. — " The Archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,...of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighiy God of Jacob." CAPRICORN us. — This figure, with the head of a GOAT and the tail of a Pish,... | |
 | 1830 - 864 pages
...over the wall. £3 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot "i hint, ami hated him : 24 but hi? bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Gvd of Ja rone by cob: (( from physicians to embalm his father : and (be physicians embalmed Israel.... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...and as Manasseh : and he set Ephraim before Manasseh." This is the blessing to Joseph from Jacob : "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel) ; even by the God of thy Father, who shall help... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1831 - 484 pages
...part of the birthright which consisted in the ' double portion' still accrued to Joseph. V. 23, 24. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob : from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel. ' Archers ;' Heb. ' lords of arrows,' or, ' arrow-masters.'... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...and he shall yield royal dainties. 21 II Naphtali is a hind let loose : he giveth goodly words. 22 II =U M ّu & x Z Ɵ .H Vę } xm c d; `"% e ar g Ԕ9 w v p 7 ; sr > m o : 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : 24 But his bow abode in... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...above.] * Isai. ix. 7. Dan. ii. 44. Heb. i. 8. LXI. JOSEPH A TYPE OF CHRIST. Gen. xlix. 22 — 24. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob : from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel. PECULIAR care is to be used in unfolding the types,... | |
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob... 
