Genesis 49:2

2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father!

Genesis 49:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 49:2

Gather yourselves together
This is repeated to hasten them, and to suggest that he had something of importance to make known unto them, which he chose to do, when they were together: and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father:
these words are used and doubled to excite their attention to what he was about to say, and which is urged from the near relation there was between them.

Genesis 49:2 In-Context

1 Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in {days to come}.

2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father!

3 Reuben, you [are] my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.

4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel [any longer], for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled [it]. You went up upon my couch!

5 Simeon and Levi [are] brothers; weapons of violence [are] their swords. Let me not come into their council.