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.
Moreover I have given to thee one portion, х shªkem (H7926)] - a shoulder, a tract, or ridge of land. There is a paronomasia on the word. This was near Shechem (Genesis 33:18; John 4:5; also Joshua 16:1; Joshua 20:7). Jacob could not, as some say, speak of his sons' raid upon Shechem as having led to an acquisition of the city; because he repudiated their cruel treachery (Genesis 49:5-6), and he had to leave that neighbourhood. It is more probable that the Amorites (Canaanites) having seized upon it during one of his frequent absences, the patriarch, with the united forces of his tribe, recovered it from them by his sword and by his bow. It was now bestowed as a special gift upon Joseph; and Keil thinks that the burial of Joseph's bones there (Joshua 24:32) bestowed as a special gift upon Joseph; and Keil thinks that the burial of Joseph's bones there (Joshua 24:32) was in consequence of this presentation (Acts 7:16).