Genesis 49:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

“Assemble yourselves and hear, you sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father.”

His words are to the sons as a family, although each will be treated individually. For some they represent devastating criticism and warning, for others general prophecy, and for Judah and Joseph effective prophecy in more detail. But their main emphasis is on their current life in Egypt which belies any suggestion that they were invented afterwards in Palestine.

Genesis 49:2

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.