Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?

General references

Bible References

One lot

Genesis 48:22
I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
Numbers 26:34
These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700.
Deuteronomy 33:13
Of Joseph he said,
Blessed of the Lord be his land,
With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,
And from the deep lying beneath,

A great

Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.

General references

Joshua 16:4
The sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.