Genesis 49:2

2 "Come together and listen, sons of Jacob. Listen to your father Israel.

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 Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the future:

2 "Come together and listen, sons of Jacob. Listen to your father Israel.

3 "Reuben, my first-born, you are my strength And the first child of my manhood, The proudest and strongest of all my sons.

4 You are like a raging flood, But you will not be the most important, For you slept with my concubine And dishonored your father's bed.

5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. They use their weapons to commit violence.