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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Genesis 47:3

This employment is not pretended nor taken up by us in design, or in contempt of thee or thy people, but was handed to us by our fathers, and hath been our business to this day.

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See also Genesis 47:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN. The interest the king manifests gives us. very favorable idea of his character. Oriental monarchs have generally secluded themselves from the public eye and been very...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION? AND THEY SAID UNTO PHARAOH, THY SERVANTS ARE SHEPHERDS, BOTH WE, AND ALSO OUR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Your servants keep animals.’ See Genesis 46:34 and the comment....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALSO OUR FATHERS. — Joseph had instructed them to add this (Genesis 46:34), because occupations were hereditary among the Egyptians, and thus Pharaoh would conclude that in their case also no change w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֛ה אֶל ־אֶחָ֖יו מַה ־מַּעֲ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, sojourners, not citizens. Believers at the best are no other. Psalms 39:12....

  • 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

    3._Thy servants are shepherds_. This confession was humiliating to the sons of Jacob, and especially to Joseph himself, whose high, and almost regal dignity, was thus marked with a spot of disgrace: f...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, WHAT [IS] YOUR OCCUPATION?.... Which is the question he had told his brethren beforehand would be asked them, and prepared them to give an answer to it, Genesis 46:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers. Ver. 3. _What is your occupation?_] That they...

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

    _What is your occupation?_ Pharaoh takes it for granted they had something to do. All that have a place in the world should have an employment in it according to their capacity, some occupation or oth...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. As Joseph had foreseen the question of Pharaoh, so hi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JACOB AND FIVE OF HIS SONS PRESENTED TO PHARAOH...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • 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 47:3 Pharaoh H6547 said H559 (H8799) brothers H251 occupation H4639 said H559 (H8799) Pharaoh H6547 servants...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What is your occupation?_ PHARAOH’S QUESTION TO THE BRETHREN OF JOSEPH I. Evidently implying THAT EACH OF US HAS, OR IS INTENDED TO HAVE, AN “OCCUPATION.” Now the word “occupation,” in its primary m...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    YOUR OCCUPATION What is your occupation? Genesis 47:3. What is your occupation? “Oh!” you say, “I haven't got an occupation yet. Father has, of course, but I must wait till I am a little older befo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 47:2. Five men.] The number _five_ was a favourite number with the Egyptians. (Genesis 41:34; Genesis 42:34; Gene

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    What is. Genesis 46:33 Genesis 46:34 Amos 7:14 Amos 7:15 Jonah 1:8...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What is your occupation? — Pharaoh takes it for granted they had something to do. All that have a place in the world should have an employment in it according to their capacity, some occupation or oth...

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