Joseph and His Tribes

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall (Gen. 49:22). As the aged, bedridden Jacob pronounced prophetic blessings on his sons by Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah, he must have looked forward with great anticipation to what God had in store for his two youngest sons—Joseph and Benjamin. These were the sons of his first love, the wife for whom he had