3709. 'In you will all the families of the ground be blessed' means that all truths taught by doctrine which look to good will be joined to good. This is clear from the meaning of 'being blessed' as being joined together, dealt with in 3504, 3514, 3530, 3565, 3584, from the meaning of 'families' as goods and also truths which look to good, dealt with in 1159, 1261, and from the meaning of 'the ground' as that which is the Church's, consequently the doctrine of good and truth within the natural or external man, which 'Jacob' represents here, dealt with in 268, 566, ago, 3671. From this it is evident that 'in you will all the families of the ground be blessed' means that all truths taught by doctrine which look to good will be joined to good. Truths taught by doctrine which look to good are matters of doctrine concerning love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, which are said to be joined to good within the natural man when satisfaction and delight exists in knowing those things with the intention of acting upon them.
1 Samuel 8:11-18
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He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
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and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
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He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
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You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."
