What is said of Rachel's death in Gen. xxxv. 19, 20 ? By what other name is Ephrath called! What king of Israel was afterwards born at Bethle hem? Whose city was it called? 8. When Israel beheld Joseph's sons, what did he say? Why did he not know them? See ver. 10. 9. How did Joseph answer his father? From whom did Joseph feel that he received all his comforts? What did Jacob bid Joseph do? 10. What is said of the infirmity of Israel? When Joseph brought his sons near to him, what did Jacob do? 11. What did Israel then say to Joseph ? Why had he not thought to see Joseph's face? Is not the goodness of God orten greater than we ex pect? Is it not always greater than we deserve? 12. What did Joseph then do with his sons? 13. How did Joseph bring Ephraim forward to his father? How did he bring Manasseh? Why did he place them in that manner? 14. Which of his hands did Israel lay on Ephraim's head? Which upon Manasseh's? How did he guide his hands? What is meant by wittingly? Which was the first-born? Was it customary to prefer the elder above the younger? 15. Whom did Jacob bless? What God did he call upon to bless Joseph's children? What did he mean by Abraham and Isaac's walking before God? What was God's charge to Abraham in Gen. xvii. 1 ? What did Jacob say God had done for him all his life long? Though we receive food and clothing through our friends, or our own industry, from whom do they come? 16. By what name did Jacob here speak of God? What did he say this angel had done for him? What are the words of the Lord to the Israelites in Ex. xxiii. 20, 21? Whom is this angel supposed to be? What did Jacob here call upon him to do? Whose names should be named upon them? What further blessing did he ask for them? What is written concerning this blessing in Heb. xi. 21 ? 17. What displeased Joseph in his father's manner of blessing his sons? What did he do? 18. What did Joseph say to his father? 19. Would his father do as he desired? What did Jacob say?. What did he say Manasseh should become What of his younger brother Ephraim? Was this prophecy of Jacob fulfilled? What is written of the numbers of Ephraim and Manasseh in Numb. i. 33, 35? 20. What did Israel say that day when he blessed them? Whom did he mean by Israel? Which did he set first, Ephraim or Manasseh? Can we understand God's designs in setting some above others in this world? What is written in Matt. xi. 26? LESSON XXIX. Genesis, Chap. xlix. verses 1, 2, 33, and Chap. 1. verses 1-13. The Death and Burial of Jacob. 1. When Jacob was about dying, whom did he call together? What did he say to them? Did Jacob foretel what should happen to them personally, or to their posterity? What days are called in Scripture the last days? See Heb. i. 2, and Acts ii. 17. How could Jacob know what would befal his sons in after times? Amos iii. 7? Can dying parents now tell their children what shall befal them hereafter? If children choose the paths of wickedness, and forsake God, what may be surely prophesied of their end? Repeat Prov. xxiii. 21, and Is. iii. 11. What may be predicted of those that love the Lord, and follow him? Is. iii. 10. 2. What did Jacob further say in calling his sons together? (Read the intermediate verses.) Who was the first-born son of Jacob? Ver. 3. What did Jacob say of his character? Why are Simeon and Levi especially called brethren ? Ver. 5. What is said of their character? From which of the sons of Israel did Christ descend? Ver. 8. What is the prophecy concerning Christ in ver. 10? Of which of his sons did Jacob say he should dwell at the haven of the sea? Ver. 13. To what did Jacob compare Issachar? Ver. 14. What did he prophesy of Gad and Asher? Ver. 19, 20. To what did he compare Joseph ? Ver. 22. Was there any thing special in the blessing pronounced upon Joseph ? What was the character of Benjamin? Ver. 27. 33. When Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, what did he do? What is meant by the word ghost? What then is to be understood by "he yielded up the ghost?" Unto whom was he gathered? What is meant by the words "he was gathered unto his people ?" What is said of Jacob and all the patriarchs in Heb. xi. 13? Chap. 1. verses 1-13. 1. What did Joseph do when his father died? How are believers bidden to sorrow for their friends in 1 Thess. iv. 13, 14? 2. What did Joseph command the physicians to do for his father's body? Was this done? How were bodies embalmed? For what purpose ? Were the Egyptians more famous than other ancient nations in the art of preserving dead bodies in this way? How long would bodies last, thus preserved? Have any been discovered in the present day? 3. How many days were occupied in em balming Israel's body? Was this the usual time employed? How long did the Egyptians mourn for Israel? 4. After the days of mourning were over, what did Joseph request of the house of Pharaoh? Who are meant by the house of Pharaoh? 5. What words of his father did Joseph beg them to tell Pharaoh ? What did Jacob mean by saying he had-digged himself a grave? What did Joseph beg of Pharaoh ? What did he promise that he would do? 6. How did Pharaoh answer him? Ought we to attend to the wishes and requests of our dying friends? If they require of us any thing wrong, are we bound to do it? 7. Did Joseph go up to bury his father? Who went up with him? Why did these go with him? 8. Who went up besides? What alone were left in the land of Go shen? |