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Genesis 37:35

GENESIS—NOTE ON Genesis 37:35 I shall go down to Sheol. Jacob believes that his grief will continue through the afterlife. “Sheol” is the proper name for the place where people go after death, though specific knowledge about the afterlife was lacking at this time.

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See also Genesis 37:35 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 37:35. _ALL HIS SONS AND ALL HIS DAUGHTERS_] He had only one daughter, _Dinah_; but his _sons' wives_ may be here included. But what hypocrisy in his sons to attempt to comfort him conce...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Joseph Was Sold into Egypt 17. דתין _dotayı̂n_ Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius) 25. נכאת _n__e__ko't_ “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum, yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native of Mount Leban...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    XII. THE GENERATIONS OF JACOB CHAPTER 37 The Story of Joseph _ 1. Jacob dwelling in Canaan (Genesis 37:1)_ 2. Joseph's character and feeding the flock (Genesis 37:2) 3. Beloved of his father (Gene...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    ALL HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS ROSE UP TO COMFORT HIM. He had eleven sons remaining, but only one daughter; the term, however, probably includes his sons' wives. Though the sons were the authors of his c...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _his daughters_ Either a different version from that in chap. 30 where Dinah is his only daughter; or referring to his sons" wives. _the grave_ Heb. _Sheol_, the name of the abode of the dead, answeri...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    (JE). Joseph sold into Egypt 2 b (J). _and he was a lad with_, &c. The English here gives an awkward rendering. The meaning is, "he was keeping sheep, being still a lad, with his brethren, the sons of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The continuation of the J clause in Genesis 37:28. Having sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites, the brothers have to plan how to explain his disappearance to Jacob. According to J, they sent the coat to Ja...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALL HIS SONS AND ALL HIS DAUGHTERS, &C.— Though Jacob had but one daughter of his own, yet, as his sons were married, _all his daughters_ may well be supposed to include his daughters-in-law. They _ro...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-SIX THE STORY OF JOSEPH (Genesis 37:1-36; Genesis 39:1 to Genesis 47:31) 1. _The Biblical Story: Joseph as a Youth in Canaan_ ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY TOOK JOSEPH'S COAT, AND KILLED A KID OF THE GOATS, AND DIPPED THE COAT IN THE BLOOD;_ They took Joseph's coat. The commission of one sin necessarily leads to another to conceal it; and the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    37:35 Sheol (a-31) Sheol. the 'hades' of the New Testament. see Psalms 6:5 , and Note at Matthew 11:23 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH IS HATED BY HIS BRETHREN AND SOLD INTO EGYPT With the exception of a few passages chiefly in Genesis 46, 49, the rest of the book of Genesis is taken from the Primitive source. The chief event...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GRAVE] the Heb. 'Sheol' MEANS the place of departed souls....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 37 JOSEPH’S DREAMS V1 Jacob lived in the country that is called *Canaan. That is the country where his father had stayed. V2 This is the story of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    INTO THE GRAVE. — Heb., _Sheol,_ which, like Hades in Greek, means the place of departed spirits. Jacob supposed that Joseph had been devoured by wild beasts, and as he was not buried, the father coul...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּקֻמוּ֩ כָל ־בָּנָ֨יו וְ כָל ־בְּנֹתָ֜יו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JOSEPH'S DREAMS Genesis 37:1 "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee."- Psalms 76:10 THE migration of Israel from Canaan to Egypt was a step of prime importance in the history. Great difficultie...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT Genesis 37:25 It was not chance, but providence, that brought these Midianites to the pit at that hour. They had, of course, fixed their time of departure from their native lan...

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

    From this point in the sacred narrative, though Jacob appears more than once, for a time the history centers around Joseph, and it is certainly safe to say that in many aspects no more remarkable figu...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS When Joseph reached them, they stripped himof the coat Jacob had given him and cast him into a pit. Then, they sat down to eat. While they were eating, a caravan of Ishmaelite tr...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Into hell; that is, into limbo, the place where the souls of the just were received before the death of our Redeemer. For allowing that the word hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot be so...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Genesis 39:1; Hebrews: Eunuch, or Chamberlain of Pharaoh's household, as well as Captain of the guard....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Gen_42:38; Gen_44:29-31....

  • 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

    35._And all his sons and daughters rose up_. The burden of his grief is more clearly expressed by the circumstance that all his sons and daughters meet together to comfort him. For by the term “rose u...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 THROUGH 41. What follows from chapter 37 is the interesting history of Joseph, to which even children ever yield a ready ear, although ignorant of all the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL HIS SONS AND ALL HIS DAUGHTERS ROSE UP TO COMFORT HIM,.... His sons must act a most hypocritical part in this affair; and as for his daughters, it is not easy to say who they were, since he ha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. Ver....

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

    _All his sons and all his daughters_ Namely, Dinah and his daughters-in-law, for several of his sons were married; _rose up to comfort him_ In this his excess of sorrow to which he had imprudently and...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    2 Ioseph is hated of his brethren. 5 His two dreames. 13 Iacob sendeth him to visite his brethren. 18 His brethren conspire his death. 21 Reuben saueth him. 26 They sell him to the Ishmeelites....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JACOB'S GRIEF OVER JOSEPH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him. A poor enough effort it must have been on the part of the guilty sons, unless they were absolutely callous by this time. BUT HE REFUSED T...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD PERIOD The Genesis of the People of israel in egypt from the twelve branches of israel, or the history of joseph and his brethren. joseph the patriarch of the faith-dispensation through humilia...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN How significant is the truth of verse 1, "Jacob lived in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan." It had taken him some years to finally settle there, but...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    31-36 When Satan has taught men to commit one sin, he teaches them to try to conceal it with another; to hide theft and murder, with lying and false oaths: but he that covers his sin shall not prospe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALL HIS DAUGHTERS; Dinah, and his daughters-in-law, and his sons daughters. THE GRAVE; this Hebrew word _sheol_ is taken sometimes for hell, as JOB 11:8 PROVERBS 15:11, but most commonly for the grave...

  • 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 37:35 sons H1121 daughters H1323 arose H6965 (H8799) comfort H5162 (H8763) refused H3985 (H8762) comforted

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 37 Joseph's is one of the most interesting histories in the world. He has the strange power of uniting our hearts to him, as to a well-beloved friend. He had "the genius to be loved greatly,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Generations of Joseph. Joseph hated and rejected by his brothers. Cast into pit. Carried away by Gentiles. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, Reuben, Judah, Potiphar. CONCLUSION: Envy is a canker...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 37:2. _These are the generations,_ or events which happened to Jacob's _family. Sons of Bilhah._ Jacob seems to have divided Leah's sons from the sons of the bond-women, who proved very wicked...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He refused to be comforted_ REAL AND UNREAL CONSOLATIONS Earth is so full of sorrows, and its sorrows are so various, and its cry for their healing so piteous and so importunate, that no man who li...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 37:35. The grave.] Heb. _Sheol_. The unseen world, or the place of departed spirits. The A.V. also renders this word in some places _hell,_ in others _the pit._ Probably deriv...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 37:26, GENESIS 37:27 AND JUDAH (apparently shrinking from the idea of murder) SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, WHAT PROFIT is it if (literally, _what of advantage that_)_ _we sl

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Genesis chapter thirty-seven. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. And these are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feedi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    his daughters. Genesis 31:43 Genesis 35:22 rose up. 2 Samuel 12:17 Job 2:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He refused to be comforted — He resolved to go down to the grave mourning; Great affection to any creature doth but prepare for so much the greater affliction, when it is either removed from us, or em...

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