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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Genesis 50:2

The dead corpse of his father with spices, and ointments, and other things necessary for the preservation of the body from putrefaction as long as might be. This Joseph did, partly, because he would comply as far as he could with the Egyptians, whose custom this was, from whom also the Jews took it, 2 Chronicles 16:14 1 Thessalonians 19:39,40; partly, to do honour and show his affections to his worthy father; and partly, because this was necessary for the keeping of the body so long as the times of mourning and the journey to Canaan required.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 50:2. _THE PHYSICIANS_] רפאים _ropheim_, the _healers_, those whose business it was to _heal_ or restore the body from sickness by the administration of proper _medicines_; and when dea...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • 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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 49:28 _ b_ - GENESIS 50:13. DEATH AND BURIAL OF JACOB. Genesis 49:28 _b_ - Genesis 49:33;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • 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 JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS THE PHYSICIANS TO EMBALM HIS FATHER: AND THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL._ Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. In ancient Egypt, where...

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘To embalm’ means to put special substances on a dead body and in it. These substances keep the body in a good state. A dead body that people have embalmed is called a ‘mummy’. It lasts for very many...

  • 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

    L. BURIAL OF JACOB, AND HAPPY OLD AGE OF JOSEPH. (2) THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL. — The command given first by Jacob to Joseph (Genesis 47:29), and then urged earnestly upon all his sons, and with...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְצַ֨ו יֹוסֵ֤ף אֶת ־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶת ־הָ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • 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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Joseph commanded his servants the (a) physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. (a) He means those who embalmed the dead and buried them....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, THE PHYSICIANS, TO EMBALM HIS FATHER,.... Which he did, not merely because it was the custom of the Egyptians, but because it was necessary, his father's corpse bein...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time. “Embalming i...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MOURNING FOR JACOB...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, an art in which the Egyptians had reached a high degree of perfection, as the condition of most mummies shows. AND THE PHYSICIA...

  • 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

    1-6 Though pious relatives and friends have lived to a good old age, and we are confident they are gone to glory, yet we may regret our own loss, and pay respect to their memory by lamenting them. Gr...

  • 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 50:2 Joseph H3130 commanded H6680 (H8762) servants H5650 physicians H7495 (H8802) embalm H2590 (H8800) father

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURIAL OF JACOB IN CANAAN (50:1-13). Genesis 50:1 ‘And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father,...

  • 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

    _Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father_ THE HONOUR PAID TO THE DEPARTED JACOB: I. PRIVATE. 1. The tears of his family. 2. The respect paid to last wishes. II. PUBLIC....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:1 Jacob’s body was EMBALMED so that it could be transported to Hebron. The SEVENTY DAYS of mourning reflects Egyptian royal practice. Jacob is being shown great honor....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:2. The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.— GENESIS 50:3. MOURNED FOR HIM THREE SCORE AND TEN...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:1 AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED HIM. Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his revered and beloved parent, as God had promised to the pa...

  • 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

    the physicians. embalmed. Genesis 50:26 2 Chronicles 16:14 Matthew 26:12 Mark 14:8...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time....

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