Genesis 49:1
49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
     together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you
     in the (a) last days.

     (a) When God will bring you out of Egypt, and because he
         speaks of the Messiah, he calls it the last days.

Genesis 49:3
49:3 Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my {b} might, and the
     beginning of my strength, {c} the excellency of dignity,
     and the excellency of power:

     (b) Begotten in my youth.
     (c) If you have not left your birthright by your offence.

Genesis 49:6
49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their {d} secret; unto their
     assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their
     anger they slew a {e} man, and in their selfwill they
     digged down a wall.

     (d) Or, tongue: meaning that he neither consented to them
         in word or thought.
     (e) The Shechemites Genesis 34:26.

Genesis 49:7
49:7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their
     wrath, for it was cruel: I will {f} divide them in Jacob,
     and scatter them in Israel.

     (f) For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah,
         Joshua 19:1 till God gave them the place of the
         Amalekites, 1 Chronicles 4:43.

Genesis 49:8
49:8 Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy
     hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's
     children shall {g} bow down before thee.

     (g) As was verified in David and Christ.

Genesis 49:9
49:9 Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art
     gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an
     old lion; {h} who shall rouse him up?

     (h) His enemies will so fear him.

Genesis 49:10
49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver
      from between his feet, until {i} Shiloh come; and unto him
      [shall] the gathering of the people [be].

      (i) Which is Christ the Messiah, the giver of prosperity
          who will call the Gentiles to salvation.

Genesis 49:11
49:11 Binding his foal unto the {k} vine, and his ass's colt
      unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and
      his clothes in the blood of grapes:

      (k) A country most abundant with vines and pastures is
          promised to him.

Genesis 49:14
49:14 Issachar [is] {l} a strong ass couching down between two
      burdens:

      (l) His force will be great, but he will lack courage to
          resist his enemies.

Genesis 49:16
49:16 Dan {m} shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
      Israel.

      (m) Shall have the honour of a tribe.

Genesis 49:18
49:18 {o} I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

      (o) Seeing the miseries that his posterity would fall
          into, he bursts out in prayer to God to remedy it.

Genesis 49:20
49:20 Out of Asher his {p} bread [shall be] fat, and he shall
      yield royal dainties.

      (p) He will abound in corn and pleasant fruits.

Genesis 49:21
49:21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth {q} goodly
      words.

      (q) Overcoming more by fair words than by force.

Genesis 49:23
49:23 {r} The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at
      him], and hated him:

      (r) As his brethren when they were his enemies, Potiphar
          and others.

Genesis 49:24
49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands
      were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of
      Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the {s} stone of
      Israel:)

      (s) That is God.

Genesis 49:26
49:26 The blessings of thy father have {t} prevailed above the
      blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
      everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph,
      and on the crown of the head of him that was {u} separate
      from his brethren.

      (t) In as much as he was closer to the accomplishment of
          the promise and it had been more often confirmed.
      (u) Either in dignity, or when he was sold from his
          brethren.

Genesis 49:33
49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
      {x} gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the
      ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

      (x) By which is signified how quietly he died.