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Verse Genesis 50:16. _THY FATHER DID COMMAND_] Whether he did or not
we cannot tell. Some think they had feigned this story, but that is
not so likely. Jacob might have had suspicions too, and might h...
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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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DISCOURSE: 62
JOSEPH’S BRETHREN FULFILLING THE PROPHECY RESPECTING THEM
Genesis 50:15. And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was
dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will...
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THY FATHER DID COMMAND— It seems most probable, from the history,
that this was a story feigned by the brethren, in order to influence
Joseph the more; and this supposition well suits with that mean 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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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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We do not know whether Jacob actually said this. Probably the brothers
were lying....
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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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THY FATHER DID COMMAND... — Many Jewish expositors consider that
this was untrue, and that Jacob was never made aware of the fact that
his brethren had sold Joseph into slavery. It is, however, probab...
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וַ יְצַוּ֕וּ אֶל ־יֹוסֵ֖ף לֵ אמֹ֑ר
אָבִ֣יךָ
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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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_A message; perhaps by Benjamin. (Menochius) --- They hope thus to
obtain pardon for the sake of their deceased father, and for the sake
of their common God._...
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How sweet to this purpose are those gospel precepts, and how much the
influence of them, arising from the same Almighty SPIRIT'S gift, was
on the mind of Joseph! Colossians 3:12; Matthew 6:12; Ephesia...
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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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16._And they sent a messenger_. Because they are ashamed themselves to
speak, they engage messengers of peace, in whom Joseph might have
greater confidence. But here also we perceive that they who hav...
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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 THEY SENT A MESSENGER UNTO JOSEPH,.... Not Bilhah, as the Targums
of Jonathan and Jerusalem, nor her sons, Dan and Naphtali, as Jarchi,
grounding it on Genesis 37:1 though it is not improbable tha...
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And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command
before he died, saying,
Ver. 16. _Thy father did command, &c._] It is a just question,
whether there were ever a true word of all...
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_Joseph will peradventure hate us_ While their father lived, they
thought themselves safe under his shadow; but now he was dead, they
feared the worst. A guilty conscience exposeth men to continual
fr...
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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 they sent a messenger unto Joseph, they commanded or instructed
some one to bring him a message, SAYING, THY FATHER DID COMMAND BEFORE
HE DIED, SAYING,...
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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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This looks like a lie; for Jacob either did not know this fact, or
rather, was so well assured of Joseph's clemency and goodness, that he
never feared his revenge. But guilt doth so awaken fear, that...
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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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THE BROTHERS FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES ON THE DEATH OF JACOB (50:14-21).
The prime purpose of this section is not so much to deal with the
brothers' fears with respect to Joseph as to stress that all that...
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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 50:15 Afraid to address Joseph face-to-face,
the brothers send a MESSAGE confessing their guilt and seeking his
forgiveness....
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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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sent. Heb. charged. Proverbs 29:25...
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Thy father did command — Thus in humbling ourselves to Christ by
faith and repentance, we may plead that it is the command of his
father and our father we should do so....