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- Joseph Was Sold into Egypt
17. דתין _dotayı̂n_ Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius)
25. נכאת _n__e__ko't_ “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum,
yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native of Mount Leban...
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XII. THE GENERATIONS OF JACOB
CHAPTER 37 The Story of Joseph
_ 1. Jacob dwelling in Canaan (Genesis 37:1)_
2. Joseph's character and feeding the flock (Genesis 37:2)
3. Beloved of his father (Gene...
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Some assign to J; more probably it belongs to J and E. To J Genesis
37:12_ a_, Genesis 37:14_ b_; to E Genesis 37:13_ b_, Genesis 37:14
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(JE). Joseph sold into Egypt
2 b (J). _and he was a lad with_, &c. The English here gives an
awkward rendering. The meaning is, "he was keeping sheep, being still
a lad, with his brethren, the sons of...
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PART FORTY-SIX
THE STORY OF JOSEPH
(Genesis 37:1-36; Genesis 39:1 to Genesis 47:31)
1. _The Biblical Story: Joseph as a Youth in Canaan_ ...
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_AND HIS BRETHREN WENT TO FEED THEIR FATHER'S FLOCK IN SHECHEM._
His brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. The vale
of Shechem was, from the earliest mention of Canaan, blest with
ex...
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JOSEPH IS HATED BY HIS BRETHREN AND SOLD INTO EGYPT
With the exception of a few passages chiefly in Genesis 46, 49, the
rest of the book of Genesis is taken from the Primitive source.
The chief event...
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Journeys like this were usual. When the sheep had eaten the grass in
one region, they needed to move to another region....
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 37
JOSEPH’S DREAMS
V1 Jacob lived in the country that is called *Canaan. That is the
country where his father had stayed.
V2 This is the story of...
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SHECHEM. — Jacob’s sons seem to have retained Shechem, by right of
their high-handed proceedings. related in Genesis 34:27. By seizing
the “_tafs”_ of the Shechemites, Simeon and Levi must have added....
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וַ יֵּלְכ֖וּ אֶחָ֑יו לִ רְעֹ֛ות אֶׄתׄ
־צֹ֥אן
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JOSEPH'S DREAMS
Genesis 37:1
"Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee."- Psalms 76:10
THE migration of Israel from Canaan to Egypt was a step of prime
importance in the history. Great difficultie...
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JOSEPH'S BROTHERS PLOT HIS DEATH
Genesis 37:12
Throughout Joseph was a very remarkable type of our Lord. There was,
first, this mission of the beloved son to inquire after the well-being
of his breth...
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From this point in the sacred narrative, though Jacob appears more
than once, for a time the history centers around Joseph, and it is
certainly safe to say that in many aspects no more remarkable figu...
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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REVENGE
Joseph's brothers took their father's sheep to the area around
Shechem. Remember, this area would have been fraught with potential
danger because of the slaughter worked by...
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Luke 2:51; Luke 2:51; Acts 7:9 ;
Shechem lay near 60 miles from Hebron....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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12._And his brethren went_. Before Moses treats of the horrible design
of fratricide, he describes the journey of Joseph, and amplifies, by
many circumstances, the atrocity of the crime. Their brother...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 THROUGH 41.
What follows from chapter 37 is the interesting history of Joseph, to
which even children ever yield a ready ear, although ignorant of all
the...
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AND HIS BRETHREN WENT TO FEED THEIR FATHER'S FLOCK IN SHECHEM. Very
probably some considerable time after the telling of the above dreams;
it was usual to remove flocks from place to place for the sak...
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And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Ver. 12. _In Shechem._] Sixty miles from Hebron, where Jacob now
dwelt....
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_To feed in Shechem_ In the parts adjoining to Shechem, probably in
the lands Jacob had purchased there. After the cruel and barbarous
massacre which Jacob's sons had been guilty of toward the Shechem...
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2 Ioseph is hated of his brethren.
5 His two dreames.
13 Iacob sendeth him to visite his brethren.
18 His brethren conspire his death.
21 Reuben saueth him.
26 They sell him to the Ishmeelites....
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THIRD PERIOD
The Genesis of the People of israel in egypt from the twelve branches
of israel, or the history of joseph and his brethren. joseph the
patriarch of the faith-dispensation through humilia...
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JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN
How significant is the truth of verse 1, "Jacob lived in the land
where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan." It had taken him
some years to finally settle there, but...
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12-22 How readily does Joseph wait his father's orders! Those
children who are best beloved by their parents, should be the most
ready to obey them. See how deliberate Joseph's brethren were against...
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In the parts adjoining to _Shechem, _ in the lands which he had
purchased there, GENESIS 33:19. Let none think strange that he should
send his sheep so far from him, both because that land was his own...
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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Genesis 37:12 brothers H251 went H3212 (H8799) feed H7462 (H8800)
fathers H1 flock H6629 Shechem H7927
in Shec
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‘And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.'
Over the years things and circumstances change. It may be that Joseph
was now not sent with them because of how they felt about him, bu...
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Genesis 37
Joseph's is one of the most interesting histories in the world. He has
the strange power of uniting our hearts to him, as to a well-beloved
friend. He had "the genius to be loved greatly,...
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CONTENTS: Generations of Joseph. Joseph hated and rejected by his
brothers. Cast into pit. Carried away by Gentiles.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, Reuben, Judah, Potiphar.
CONCLUSION: Envy is a canker...
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Genesis 37:2. _These are the generations,_ or events which happened to
Jacob's _family. Sons of Bilhah._ Jacob seems to have divided Leah's
sons from the sons of the bond-women, who proved very wicked...
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_His brethren went to feed their father’s flock_
JOSEPH LEAVES HIS FATHER TO SEEK HIS BRETHREN
Do you discover in this any type of the Redeemer?
Does it remind you of one who left a far better home,...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 37:12 SHECHEM. See note on 33:17–18.
⇐...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 37:2 Jacob’s Descendants. The last main
section of Genesis 1:1 further develops the theme of a royal line
descended from Abraham. As governor of Egypt
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 37:3. The son of his old age] He was ninety years old when
Joseph was horn. A COAT OF MANY COLOURS.] Heb. _A tunic of parts._ The
expression occurs again in 2 Samuel 13:18, to...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 37:12
AND HIS BRETHREN WENT TO FEED THEIR FATHER'S FLOCK IN SHECHEM—_i.e._
the modern Nablous, in the plain of Muknah, which belonged to Jacob
partly by purchase and partly by conq...
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Genesis chapter thirty-seven. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his
father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. And these are the
generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feedi...
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in Shechem. Genesis 37:1 Genesis 33:18 Genesis 34:25...
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JOSEPH SEEKING HIS BRETHREN
Genesis 37:12
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is difficult for us to understand why Joseph's brethren should have
hated him. Joseph was but a youth of quiet mien and true integrit...