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Verse Genesis 47:2. _HE TOOK SOME OF HIS BRETHREN_] There is something
very strange in the original; literally translated it signifies "from
the end or extremity (מקצה _miktseh_) of his brethren he to...
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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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HE TOOK SOME OF HIS BRETHREN, EVEN FIVE MEN.
He probably selected the five brethren in order that their appearance
might make. favorable impression upon Pharaoh. The rest were left to
guard the house...
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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 HE TOOK SOME OF HIS BRETHREN, EVEN FIVE MEN, AND PRESENTED THEM
UNTO PHARAOH._
Took some of his brethren - probably the five oldest brothers,
seniority being the least invidious principle of sel...
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47:2 number (a-7) 'From the end.' see ch. 19.4....
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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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EVEN FIVE MEN. — As the number “five” appears again and again in
this narrative (Genesis 43:34; Genesis 45:22), it may have had some
special importance among the Egyptians, like the number seven among...
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וּ מִ קְצֵ֣ה אֶחָ֔יו לָקַ֖ח
חֲמִשָּׁ֣ה אֲנָשׁ
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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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And he took some of his brethren, [even] (a) five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
(a) That the king might be assured that they had come, and to see what
type of people they were....
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_The last. Extremos. Some interpret this word of the chiefest, and
most sightly: but Joseph seems rather to have chosen out such as had
the meanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing...
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Reader! so must JESUS present us before GOD and our FATHER, or we
cannot come before him, John 14:6....
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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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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 HE TOOK SOME OF HIS BRETHREN,.... Along with him, when he left his
father in Goshen; the word for "some" signifies the extremity of a
thing: hence some have fancied that he took some of the meanes...
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_And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them
unto Pharaoh._
Ver. 2. _Even five men._] R. Solomon telleth us (but who told him?)
which five they were; sc., Reuben, Simeon, Le...
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_He took some of his brethren_ The original words here, literally
translated, are, _He took from the end, extremity_, or _tail_ of _his
brethren_, _five men_ And some have thought the sense is, He too...
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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 he took some of his brethren, out of their total number, even five
men, AND PRESENTED THEM UNTO PHARAOH....
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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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SOME OF HIS BRETHREN, or _part, _ as this Hebrew word is used, DANIEL
1:2; or the _extremity, _ or _end, _ or _tail_ of them, i.e. the
meanest of them for person and presence, as the word is taken 1 K...
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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 47:2 took H3947 (H8804) five H2568 men H582 among H7097
brothers H251 presented H3322 (H8686) to...
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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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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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presented. Acts 7:13 2 Corinthians 4:14 Colossians 1:28...
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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...