Genesis 48:4 (BSB)

and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

From Genesis 48. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 48:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 48:1-7: Here, I. Joseph, upon notice of his father's illness, goes to see him; though a man of honour and business, yet he will not fail to show this due respect to his aged father, Gen 48:1. Visiting the sick, to whom we lie under obligations, or may have opportunity of doing good, either for body or soul, is our duty.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 48:4: And said unto me, behold, I will make thee fruitful,.... In a spiritual sense, in grace and good works; in a literal sense, in an increase of worldly substance, and especially of children: and multiply thee; make his posterity numerous as the sand of the sea: and I will make of thee a multitude of people; a large nation, consisting of many tribes, even a...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 48:4: Behold, I will make thee fruitful--This is a repetition of the covenant (Gen 28:13-15; Gen 35:12). Whether these words are to be viewed in a limited sense, as pointing to the many centuries during which the Jews were occupiers of the Holy Land, or whether the words bear a wider meaning and intimate that the scattered tribes of Israel are to be reinstated in the...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Genesis 48:4: And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee [for] an everlasting possession. (b) Which is true in the carnal Israel until the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever.