Genesis 41:51

New International Version

Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

Genesis 41:50

Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Genesis 41:52

The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Genesis 48:1

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.

Genesis 48:5

“Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

Job 11:16

You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

Psalm 30:11

You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Psalm 30:5

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

Psalm 45:10

Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house.

Proverbs 31:7

Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created.

Isaiah 65:16

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the one true God; whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the one true God. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

Numbers 26:28

The descendants of Joseph by their clans through Manasseh and Ephraim were:

Deuteronomy 33:17

In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Joshua 14:4

for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

Joshua 17:1

This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.

1 Samuel 1:20

So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”