"Jacob had ever been a man of deep and ardent affection; his love for his sons was strong and tender, and his dying testimony to them was not the utterance of partiality or resentment. He had forgiven them all, and he loved them to the last. His paternal tenderness would have found expression only in words of encouragement and hope; but the power of God rested upon him, and under the influence of Inspiration he was constrained to declare the truth, however painful. PP 237.1"
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
The EGW passage describes Jacob speaking under the influence of inspiration, even when it was difficult, which parallels the idea in 2 Peter 1:21 that prophecy comes from the Holy Spirit, not the will of man.
"The last blessings pronounced, Jacob repeated the charge concerning his burial place: “I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers ... in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah.” “There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.” Thus the last act of his life was to manifest his faith in God's promise. PP 237.2"
"And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,"
The EGW passage directly quotes and elaborates on Genesis 49:29 regarding Jacob's burial request.
"By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones."
Both passages highlight the faith demonstrated through instructions concerning burial. Jacob's instruction shows faith in God's promise of the land, similar to Joseph's instruction regarding his bones.
"Jacob's last years brought an evening of tranquillity and repose after a troubled and weary day. Clouds had gathered dark above his path, yet his sun set clear, and the radiance of heaven illumined his parting hours. Says the Scripture, “At evening time it shall be light.” Zechariah 14:7 . “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.” Psalm 37:37 . PP 237.3"
"But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light."
Ellen White directly references Zechariah 14:7 in this passage.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
Ellen White directly references Psalms 37:37 in this passage.
Jacob had sinned, and had deeply suffered. Many years of toil, care, and sorrow had been his since the day when his great sin caused him to flee from his father's tents. A homeless fugitive, separated from his mother, whom he never saw again; laboring seven years for her whom he loved, only to be basely cheated; toiling twenty years in the service of a covetous and grasping kinsman; seeing his wealth increasing, and sons rising around him, but finding little joy in the contentious and divided household; distressed by his daughter's shame, by her brothers’ revenge, by the death of Rachel, by the unnatural crime of Reuben, by Judah's sin, by the cruel deception and malice practiced toward Joseph—how long and dark is the catalogue of evils spread out to view! Again and again he had reaped the fruit of that first wrong deed. Over and over he saw repeated among his sons the sins of which he himself had been guilty. But bitter as had been the discipline, it had accomplished its work. The cha…
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
Ellen White directly references Hebrews 12:11 in this passage.