Genesis 49:2

2 "Gather yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto 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 And Jacob called unto his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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

3 "Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch.

5 "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.