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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Genesis 50:26

So for about thirteen years of affliction he enjoyed eighty years of honour, and as much happiness as earth could afford him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 50:26. _JOSEPH DIED, BEING A HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD_] בן מאה ועשר שנים _ben meah vaeser shanim_; literally, _the son of a_ _hundred and ten years_. Here the _period_ of time he lived...

  • 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

    AND THEY EMBALMED HIM, AND HE WAS PUT IN A COFFIN— The same care of his body was taken as of that of his father Jacob; he was _embalmed_ and _put into a coffin,_ which was considered as a mark of dist...

  • 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

    _SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD: AND THEY EMBALMED HIM,_ So Joseph died, being, an hundred and ten years old. Bunsen, whose semi-rationalistic system led him to reduce the longevi...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    50:26 coffin (b-20) Lit. 'ark.' Same word as used for the ark in Exodus 25:10 and elsewhere....

  • 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

    For ‘embalm’ see the comment on verses 2-3. Nearly 400 years after this time, Israel’s *descendants left Egypt and they went to *Canaan. They took Joseph’s mummy with them and they buried it in *Cana...

  • 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

    A COFFIN. — The word means a case or chest of wood. The mummy-cases were generally of sycamore-wood. As it would not be possible for the Israelites, now that their great protector was no more, to go w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֣מָת יֹוסֵ֔ף בֶּן ־מֵאָ֥ה וָ עֶ֖שֶׂר

  • 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

    Hebrews 11:22 REFLECTIONS Reader! it would be wrong to close our review of the life of the Patriarch Joseph, without once more looking at so illustrious a character, both as he is in himself, and as...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JOSEPH’S DEATH_ ‘So Joseph died.’ Genesis 50:26 Death is an unescapable experience alike for prince and for peasant. Joseph was great and good, but he was mortal, and, in God’s appointed time, wen...

  • 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

    SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD,.... The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor x, from Demetrius an Heathen. The Jewish writers y say, that he died the first of the twelve patriarchs...

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

    _Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old_ So for about thirteen years of affliction he enjoyed eighty years of honour, and as much happiness as earth could afford him. _He was put in a coffin 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 Death of Joseph...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt, in a chest of sycamore wood such as was used to keep a mummy until the time of burial. T...

  • 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

    22-26 Joseph having honoured his father, his days were long in the land, which, for the present, God had given him. When he saw his death approaching, he comforted his brethren with the assurance of...

  • 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 50:26 Joseph H3130 died H4191 (H8799) hundred H3967 ten H6235 years H8141 old H1121 embalmed H2590 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘So Joseph died being a hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt.' This verse is not a conclusion but a hesitation, for it describes a temporary situation. Th...

  • 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

    _So Joseph died_ THE DEATH OF JOSEPH: I. JOSEPH’S DEATH WAS THAT OF EMINENTLY GOOD MAN. Perhaps the best man of the Old Testament. He was not surprised by death, nor dismayed at its coming. He had l...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you_ DYING JOSEPH: I. SATISFIED WITH THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD. II. FULL OF FAITH. 1. Sure of God’s covenant. 2. Superior to the wo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:24 With death near, Joseph makes arrangements for his BONES to be taken to Canaan. Later, Moses fulfills this instruction (Exodus 13:19)

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:23. Of the third generation.] “Either sons _belonging to,_ or sons _of,_ the third generation. If the former, then his (Joseph’s) great,—if the latter, his great-great-gran...

  • 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

    being an hundred and ten years old. Genesis 50:22 Genesis 47:9 Genesis 47:28 Joshua 24:29 they embalmed....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He was put in a coffin in Egypt — But not buried till his children had received their inheritance in Canaan, Joshua 24:32. If the soul do but return to its rest with God, the matter is not great, thou...

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