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- 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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....
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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...
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‘Your servants keep animals.’ See Genesis 46:34 and the comment....
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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...
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֛ה אֶל ־אֶחָ֖יו
מַה ־מַּעֲ
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Observe, sojourners, not citizens. Believers at the best are no other.
Psalms 39:12....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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_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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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...
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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...
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JACOB AND FIVE OF HIS SONS PRESENTED TO PHARAOH...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Genesis 47:3 Pharaoh H6547 said H559 (H8799) brothers H251 occupation
H4639 said H559 (H8799) Pharaoh H6547 servants...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 47:2. Five men.] The number _five_ was a favourite number with
the Egyptians. (Genesis 41:34; Genesis 42:34; Gene
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...