_AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED HIM._ Joseph fell upon his father's face ... On him, as the principal member of the family, devolved the duty of closing the eyes of his venerable parent (Genesis 40:4), and imprinting on his forehead the farewell kiss.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS THE PHYSICIANS TO EMBALM HIS FATHER: AND THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL._ Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. In ancient Egypt, where the state of civilization was so greatly advanced, the medical profession was subdivided into a var... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND FORTY DAYS WERE FULFILLED FOR HIM; FOR SO ARE FULFILLED THE DAYS OF THOSE WHICH ARE EMBALMED: AND THE EGYPTIANS MOURNED FOR HIM THREESCORE AND TEN DAYS._ Forty days were fulfilled for him. Diodorus says, generally 'upwards of thirty days were allotted for the completion of the process.' THE E... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HIS MOURNING WERE PAST, JOSEPH SPAKE UNTO THE HOUSE OF PHARAOH, SAYING, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN YOUR EYES, SPEAK, I PRAY YOU, IN THE EARS OF PHARAOH, SAYING,_ Joseph spake, ... Care was taken to let it be known that the family grave was provided, before leaving Canaan, an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID, GO UP, AND BURY THY FATHER, ACCORDING AS HE MADE THEE SWEAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH WENT UP TO BURY HIS FATHER: AND WITH HIM WENT UP ALL THE SERVANTS OF PHARAOH, THE ELDERS OF HIS HOUSE, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,_ And Joseph went up to bury his father ... It was a journey of 300 miles. The funeral cavalcade, composed of a large attendance of the nobility... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSE: ONLY THEIR LITTLE ONES, AND THEIR FLOCKS, AND THEIR HERDS, THEY LEFT IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CAME TO THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF ATAD, WHICH IS BEYOND JORDAN, AND THERE THEY MOURNED WITH A GREAT AND VERY SORE LAMENTATION: AND HE MADE A MOURNING FOR HIS FATHER SEVEN DAYS._ They came to the threshing-floor of Atad. "Atad" may be taken as a common noun, signifying 'the plain of the thorn... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, THE CANAANITES, SAW THE MOURNING IN THE FLOOR OF ATAD, THEY SAID, THIS IS A GRIEVOUS MOURNING TO THE EGYPTIANS: WHEREFORE THE NAME OF IT WAS CALLED ABELMIZRAIM, WHICH IS BEYOND JORDAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HIS SONS CARRIED HIM INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND BURIED HIM IN THE CAVE OF THE FIELD OF MACHPELAH, WHICH ABRAHAM BOUGHT WITH THE FIELD FOR A POSSESSION OF A BURYINGPLACE OF EPHRON THE HITTITE, BEFORE MAMRE._ His sons ... buried him in the cave ... of Machpelah - (see the note at Genesis 23:1-... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH RETURNED INTO EGYPT, HE, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND ALL THAT WENT UP WITH HIM TO BURY HIS FATHER, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIS FATHER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US, AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US ALL THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM._ When Joseph's brethren saw ... He was deeply affected by this communication. In endeavouring to dispel their fears, he gave the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH DWELT IN EGYPT, HE, AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSE: AND JOSEPH LIVED AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS._ Joseph dwelt in Egypt. He lived 80 years after his elevation to the chief power, witnessing a great increase in the prosperity of the kingdom, and also of his own family and kindred-the infant congre... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, I DIE: AND GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU, AND BRING YOU OUT OF THIS LAND UNTO THE LAND WHICH HE SWARE TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB._ I DIE - or, 'I am dying.' The national feelings of the Egyptians would have been opposed to his burial in Canaan; and therefore h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH TOOK AN OATH OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU, AND YE SHALL CARRY UP MY BONES FROM HENCE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD: AND THEY EMBALMED HIM,_ So Joseph died, being, an hundred and ten years old. Bunsen, whose semi-rationalistic system led him to reduce the longevity of the patriarchs to the present ordinary standard of life, does not allow ('Egypt's Place,' iii.... [ Continue Reading ]