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- Jacob in Goshen
11. רעמסס _ra‛m__e__sês_, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.”
31. מטה _mı̂ṭṭāh_, “bed.” מטה _maṭṭeh_
“staff.”
Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The
adm...
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CHAPTER 47 THE SETTLEMENT IN GOSHEN
_ 1. Before Pharaoh (Genesis 47:1)_
2. The settlement (Genesis 47:11)
3. Joseph's wise administration (Genesis 47:13)
4. Jacob's request ...
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GENESIS 46:1 TO GENESIS 47:12. JACOB AND HIS DESCENDANTS GO DOWN INTO
EGYPT AND SETTLE IN GOSHEN. The list in Genesis 46:8 with the
introductory verses...
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FOR TO SOJOURN IN THE LAND ARE WE COME.
They do not ask for. permanent settlement in Egypt, but wish to
sojourn for. time. They, no doubt, had heard of the prophecies made
concerning their race, that...
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3. _Joseph as Prime Minister of Egypt_ (Genesis 41:46 to Genesis
47:31)
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,...
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_THEY SAID MOREOVER UNTO PHARAOH, FOR TO SOJOURN IN THE LAND ARE WE
COME; FOR THY SERVANTS HAVE NO PASTURE FOR THEIR FLOCKS; FOR THE
FAMINE IS SORE IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: NOW THEREFORE, WE PRAY THEE,...
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JOSEPH PRESENTS HIS BRETHREN AND HIS FATHER TO PHARAOH. HE MAKES
EXTENSIVE CHANGES IN THE LAND TENURE OF EGYPT
6. Rulers over my cattle] The superintendenee of the royal flocks and
herds would be a p...
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‘Please let your servants live in *Goshen.’ Joseph had already
said that they should live in *Goshen. And *Pharaoh had made Joseph
the ruler of all Egypt. Therefore, Joseph had the authority to make
t...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 47
JACOB AND HIS SONS MEET *PHARAOH
V1 So Joseph went to *Pharaoh. He said to him, ‘My father and my
brothers have come from *Canaan. They have b...
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TO SOJOURN. — Joseph’s brethren ask for permission only for a
temporary stay. Apparently, too, in spite of the famine, there was
pasture for cattle in Goshen. They had been able hitherto to keep them...
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וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל ־פַּרְעֹ֗ה לָ ג֣וּר
בָּ
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PHARAOH WELCOME'S JOSEPH'S RELATIVES
Genesis 46:28; Genesis 47:1
What a meeting between father and son! If the old man were sitting in
the corner of the lumbering wagon, weary with the long journey,...
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To watch Jacob is to see a man who alternated between faith and fear.
Standing before Pharaoh, his faith in God and his consciousness of his
own position in the divine economy were clearly apparent. T...
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JOSEPH'S STATESMANSHIP
Joseph directed all the members of his father's household to say they
were shepherds. He well knew the attitude of the Egyptians toward
nomadic herdsmen. They thought of shephe...
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Observe, sojourners, not citizens. Believers at the best are no other.
Psalms 39:12....
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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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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 42 THROUGH 47.
At the same time another scene presents itself. His brethren, who had
rejected him, forced by famine, are brought, by the path of repentance
an...
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THEY SAID MOREOVER UNTO PHARAOH, FOR TO SOJOURN IN THE LAND ARE WE
COME,.... Not to obtain possessions and inheritances, as if natives,
and to abide there always, but to continue for a little time; fo...
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They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we
come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee,...
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_To sojourn in the land are we come_ Not to _settle_ there for ever;
only to _sojourn_, while the famine prevailed so in Canaan, which lay
high, that it was not habitable for _shepherds_, the grass be...
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1 Ioseph presenteth fiue of his brethren,
7 and his father, before Pharaoh.
11 Hee giueth them habitation and maintenance.
13 He getteth all the Egyptians money,
16 their cattell,
18 their lands...
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EIGHTH SECTION
_Israel’s emigration with his family to Egypt. The settlement in the
land of Goshen. Jacob and Pharaoh. Joseph’s political Economy.
Jacob’s charge concerning his burial at Canaan._
GE...
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In announcing to Pharaoh the coming of his father and his brothers,
Joseph first introduces five of his brothers to him (vs.1-2). We are
not told which ones, but they were likely those who could speak...
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1-6 Though Joseph was a great man, especially in Egypt, yet he owned
his brethren. Let the rich and great in the world not overlook or
despise poor relations. Our Lord Jesus is not ashamed to call us...
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TO SOJOURN IN THE LAND ARE WE COME; not to defraud thy people of their
lands and habitations, but only to be here for a season, as strangers
and sojourners, till we can conveniently return to our 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 47:4 said H559 (H8799) Pharaoh H6547 come H935 (H8804) dwell
H1481 (H8800) land H776 servants...
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CONTENTS: Jacob and descendants exalted in Goshen.
CHARACTERS: Pharaoh, Joseph, brothers, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: Notwithstanding former unkindnesses received, the believer
who is prospered in this world...
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Genesis 47:2. _Some of his brethren._ ומקצה _vemi-ketzeh
extremitate,_ as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking
of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2, when
describin...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:1 Joseph introduces FIVE of his brothers
to Pharaoh, mentioning that his family is NOW IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 47:2. Five men.] The number _five_ was a favourite number with
the Egyptians. (Genesis 41:34; Genesis 42:34; Gene
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 47:1
THEN JOSEPH CAME—literally, _and Joseph went, _up to the royal
presence, as he had proposed (Genesis 46:31)—and told Pharaoh, and
said, My father and my brethren, and their fl...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the forty-seventh chapter of
Genesis?
Joseph has been sold by his brothers as a slave to the traders going
to Egypt. In Egypt he is resold and purchased by a man nam...
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For to. Genesis 12:10 Genesis 15:13 Deuteronomy 26:5 Psalms 105:23...
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BLESSED AND MADE A BLESSING
Genesis 47:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Chapter 46 of Genesis we are passing over with a few words of
introduction, which will lead us into chapter 47, Chapter 46 is taken
up, f...
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To sojourn in the land are we cane — Not to settle there for ever;
only to sojourn, while the famine prevailed so in Canaan, which lay
high, that it was not habitable for shepherds, the grass being bu...