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Genesis 50:19

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God, to judge, to condemn, and to punish? God had brought matters to pass in this manner, and it was not for Joseph to change God's purposes.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 50:19. AM _I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?_] These words may be understood either as a question, or an _affirmative proposition_. How should I take any farther notice of your transgression? I ha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Burial of Jacob 10. אטד _'āṭâd_ Atad, “the buck-thorn.” 11. מצרים אבל _'ābêl_-_mı̂tsrayı̂m_, Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim. This chapter records the burial of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 50 THE BURIAL OF JACOB AND JOSEPH'S RETURN AND DEATH _ 1. The grief of Joseph (Genesis 50:1)_ 2. The burial (Genesis 50:4) 3. The return to Egypt (Genesis 50:14) 4. The death of Joseph ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?— See ch. Genesis 30:2. where this same phrase occurs; the meaning of which seems to be the same in both places; as if Joseph had said, "Shall I presume to oppose myself t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-SEVEN THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH (Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26) The Biblical Account 48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURIAL OF JACOB, AND DEATH OF JOSEPH 2. For the importance attached by the Egyptians to the preservation of the corpse see on Genesis 40:19. The process, which was so thorough that mummies of Jose...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _Am_ I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?] i.e. to judge or to punish....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The brothers had asked Joseph to forgive them. (See verse 17.) But Joseph did not say, ‘I forgive you.’ He had already forgiven them, many years before this time....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 50 JOSEPH BURIES HIS FATHER V1 Then Joseph bent himself down over his father’s face. He wept over him and he kissed him. V2 And Joseph told his s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD? — That is, _am I to act as judge, and punish?_ Judges are sometimes in Hebrew even called God (as in Exodus 21:6; Exodus 22:8; 1 Samuel 2:25), as exercising His authority....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֛ם יֹוסֵ֖ף אַל ־תִּירָ֑אוּ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSEPH LOVES UNTIL HIS DEATH Genesis 50:15 The fear of Joseph's brethren illustrates the insecurity of a position which is conceded only at the bidding of the tender caprice of love, apart from satis...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. Th...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    JOSEPH'S FINAL DAYS Joseph had experienced Egyptians embalm Jacob's body, which took forty days. For seventy days, the Egyptians mourned Jacob's death. Joseph asked Pharaoh to allow him to take his fa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of (s) God? (s) Who by the good success seems to remit it, and therefore it should not be revenged by me....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Resist, &c. Hebrew, "Am I not subject to God; or, Am I a God," to oppose his will. Septuagint, "I belong to the Lord." You see that your designs against me have turned to our mutual advantage. Can I,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Genesis 45:5. - Nothing can be more satisfactory in proof of a work of grace in the heart, than when believers pass by second causes to keep in view the LORD'S hand in all appointments....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._Am I in the place of God? _Some think that, in these words, he was rejecting the honor paid him: as if he would say, that it was unjustly offered to him, because it was due to God alone. But this...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50. Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT,.... That any hurt would be done by him to them, or that he would use them ill for their treatment of him: FOR AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD? to receive such homage fro...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God? Ver. 19. _Am I in the place of God?_] q.d., Can I hurt you when God intends good to you? Is it for me to cross his decree?...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Am I in the place of God?_ Dare I usurp the prerogative of God, to whom it belongs to take vengeance? Or, can I do what I please with you, without God's leave? Fear him rather than me, and upon your...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The mourning for Iacob. 4 Ioseph getteth leaue of Pharaoh to goe to bury him. 7 The funerall. 15 Ioseph comforteth his brethren, who craued his pardon. 22 His age. 23 He seeth the third generat...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    ELEVENTH SECTION _Joseph’s mourning. Jacob’s burial in Canaan. The brothers’ dread of Joseph. His word of peace and trust for them. Joseph’s last provision for his own return home to Canaan after dea...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB'S BURIAL (vs.1-14) The sorrow of Joseph over his father's death is seen in verse 1. It is an interesting study to consider the times in which Joseph is recorded as weeping. In contrast to buria...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-21 Various motives might cause the sons of Jacob to continue in Egypt, notwithstanding the prophetic vision Abraham had of their bondage there. Judging of Joseph from the general temper of human n...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is God's prerogative to take vengeance, which I dare not usurp. See DEUTERONOMY 32:35. Or, can I do what I please with you without God's leave? Therefore fear him rather than me, and upon your expe...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 50:19 Joseph H3130 said H559 (H8799) afraid H3372 (H8799) God H430 fear not - Genesis 45:5;

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid. For am I in the place of God? And as for me, you intended evil against me, but God meant it for good, to cause to happen as it is this day, to save large nu...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's burial. Joseph's death. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, brothers. CONCLUSION: As it is an honor to die lamented, so it is a duty to honor the dead who have been useful in the Lord. Sinc...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 50:2. _The physicians embalmed Israel._ The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by ph...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Forgive_ THE MESSAGE OF HIS BRETHREN TO JOSEPH: The death of great characters being often followed by great changes; conscious guilt being always alive to fear; and the chasm which succeeds a funer...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:18 Probably encouraged by news of Joseph’s kind response to their message, the BROTHERS CAME AND FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM. Once again, their bowing and their words, Behold, we a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:15. Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering is—_If Joseph should now punish us_, _and re...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:15 AND WHEN (literally _and_)_ _JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY (literally, and they) SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US,—literally, _If Joseph _hated...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    fear not. Genesis 45:5 Matthew 14:27 Luke 24:37 Luke 24:38 for am I. Genesis 30:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Am I in the place of God? — He in his great humility thought they shewed him too much respect, and faith to them in effect, as Peter to Cornelius, Stand up, I myself also am a man. Make your peace wit...

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