Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Genesis 50:20

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Their evil intentions the Lord had not only frustrated, but had turned them for the best, as they plainly saw before their eyes, their own lives being saved as a consequence of the Lord's providence.

Continues after advertising

See also Genesis 50:20 in other biblical comments:

  • 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 ...

  • 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

    The selling of Joseph by his brethren had been a sinful action, but through his coming to Egypt God had brought about a great blessing to many. So He often brings good out of evil, though evil is not...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The things that had happened were a part of God’s plan. Joseph realised that and so he did not blame his brothers. Instead, he praised God. JOSEPH DIES V22 So Joseph lived in Egypt. He and his fathe...

  • 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

    YE THOUGHT... GOD MEANT. — The verb in the Heb. is the same, and contrasts man’s purpose with God’s purpose. In Genesis 45:7 Joseph had already pointed out that the Divine providence had overruled the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַתֶּ֕ם חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָלַ֖י רָעָ֑ה אֱלֹהִים֙...

  • 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...

  • 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

    20._Ye thought evil against me_. Joseph well considers (as we have said) the providence of God; so that he imposes it on himself as a compulsory law, not only to grant pardon, but also to exercise ben...

  • 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

    BUT AS FOR YOU, YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME,.... That must be said and owned, that their intentions were bad; they thought to have contradicted his dreams, and made them of none effect, to have token a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive. Ver. 20. _But God meant it unto good._] God altereth the pr...

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

    _Ye thought evil, but God meant it unto good_ In order to the making Joseph a greater blessing to his family than otherwise he could have been. _Fear not, I will nourish you_ See what an excellent spi...

  • 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

    YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME, therefore I do not excuse your guilt, though I comfort you against despondency....

  • 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 50:20 meant H2803 (H8804) evil H7451 God H430 meant H2803 (H8804) good H2896 order H4616 about...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 50:20 In this study of the Divine mode of conduct, we shall find (1) a light for the interpretation of the ways of Providence; (2) an example to be followed. I. God permits evil, but from the...

  • 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

    _Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good_ GOOD OUT OF EVIL: 1. God permits evil, but from the evil He unceasingly causes good to proceed. If good were not destined to conquer evil, G...

  • 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

    ye thought. Genesis 37:4 Genesis 37:18 Psalms 56:5 God meant. Genesis 45:5...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye thought evil, but God meant it unto good — In order to the making Joseph a greater blessing to his family than otherwise he could have been....

Continues after advertising