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Verse Genesis 50:19. AM _I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?_] These words may be
understood either as a question, or an _affirmative proposition_. How
should I take any farther notice of your transgression? I ha...
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- 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...
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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 ...
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FOR AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?— See ch. Genesis 30:2. where this same
phrase occurs; the meaning of which seems to be the same in both
places; as if Joseph had said, "Shall I presume to oppose myself t...
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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:...
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_AND WHEN JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY SAID,
JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US, AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US ALL
THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM._
When Joseph's brethren saw...
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_Am_ I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?] i.e. to judge or to punish....
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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...
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The brothers had asked Joseph to forgive them. (See verse 17.) But
Joseph did not say, ‘I forgive you.’ He had already forgiven them,
many years before this time....
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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...
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AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD? — That is, _am I to act as judge, and
punish?_ Judges are sometimes in Hebrew even called God (as in Exodus
21:6; Exodus 22:8; 1 Samuel 2:25), as exercising His authority....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of (s)
God?
(s) Who by the good success seems to remit it, and therefore it should
not be revenged by me....
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_Resist, &c. Hebrew, "Am I not subject to God; or, Am I a God," to
oppose his will. Septuagint, "I belong to the Lord." You see that your
designs against me have turned to our mutual advantage. Can I,...
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Genesis 45:5. - Nothing can be more satisfactory in proof of a work of
grace in the heart, than when believers pass by second causes to keep
in view the LORD'S hand in all appointments....
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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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19._Am I in the place of God? _Some think that, in these words, he was
rejecting the honor paid him: as if he would say, that it was unjustly
offered to him, because it was due to God alone. But this...
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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...
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AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT,.... That any hurt would be done
by him to them, or that he would use them ill for their treatment of
him:
FOR AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD? to receive such homage fro...
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And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?
Ver. 19. _Am I in the place of God?_] q.d., Can I hurt you when God
intends good to you? Is it for me to cross his decree?...
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_Am I in the place of God?_ Dare I usurp the prerogative of God, to
whom it belongs to take vengeance? Or, can I do what I please with
you, without God's leave? Fear him rather than me, and upon your...
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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...
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And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God, to
judge, to condemn, and to punish? God had brought matters to pass in
this manner, and it was not for Joseph to change God's purpos...
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Joseph Reassures his Brothers...
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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...
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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...
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15-21 Various motives might cause the sons of Jacob to continue in
Egypt, notwithstanding the prophetic vision Abraham had of their
bondage there. Judging of Joseph from the general temper of human
n...
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It is God's prerogative to take vengeance, which I dare not usurp. See
DEUTERONOMY 32:35. Or, can I do what I please with you without God's
leave? Therefore fear him rather than me, and upon your expe...
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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 50:19 Joseph H3130 said H559 (H8799) afraid H3372 (H8799) God
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fear not - Genesis 45:5;
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‘And Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid. For am I in the place
of God? And as for me, you intended evil against me, but God meant it
for good, to cause to happen as it is this day, to save large nu...
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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...
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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...
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_Forgive_
THE MESSAGE OF HIS BRETHREN TO JOSEPH:
The death of great characters being often followed by great changes;
conscious guilt being always alive to fear; and the chasm which
succeeds a funer...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:18 Probably encouraged by news of
Joseph’s kind response to their message, the BROTHERS CAME AND FELL
DOWN BEFORE HIM. Once again, their bowing and their words, Behold, we
a...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 50:15. Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly
requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering
is—_If Joseph should now punish us_, _and re...
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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...
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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...
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fear not. Genesis 45:5 Matthew 14:27 Luke 24:37 Luke 24:38 for am I.
Genesis 30:2
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Am I in the place of God? — He in his great humility thought they
shewed him too much respect, and faith to them in effect, as Peter to
Cornelius, Stand up, I myself also am a man. Make your peace wit...