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Verse Genesis 47:19. _BUY US AND OUR LAND FOR BREAD_] In times of
famine in _Hindostan_, thousands of children have been sold to prevent
their perishing. In the Burman empire the sale of _whole famili...
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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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JOSEPH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE FAMINE TO SECURE FOR THE CROWN THE
MONEY, THE CATTLE, AND THE LANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS. If this belongs to
one of the main documents, J is the most probable. But it may be...
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WHEREFORE SHALL WE DIE—WE, AND OUR LAND— Land may be said,
metaphorically, to die, when it lies uncultivated and desolate: this
is agreeable, says Calmet, to the language of the poets, and of the
best...
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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 THERE WAS NO BREAD IN ALL THE LAND; FOR THE FAMINE WAS VERY SORE,
SO THAT THE LAND OF EGYPT AND ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN FAINTED BY REASON
OF THE FAMINE._
There was no bread ... This probably refe...
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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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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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לָ֧מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְ עֵינֶ֗יךָ גַּם
־אֲנַ֨חְנוּ֙...
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JOSEPH'S ADMINISTRATION
Genesis 41:37, Genesis 47:13
"He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To
bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."
Psalms 105:2...
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EGYPTIANS SAVED IN FAMINE
Genesis 47:13
The slender stores of the Egyptians were soon exhausted, and had it
not been for Joseph the streets would have been filled with the dying
and dead. His Egyptia...
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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 STEWARDSHIP
Joseph proved to be a good steward over the grain collected during the
years of plenty. First, he sold grain for money until all the money in
Egypt and Canaan was exhausted. Next...
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_Servants. A person may part with his liberty, to preserve life.
(Menochius)_...
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Exodus 18:21
These verses are a digression from the history of the Patriarchs, and
serve only to manifest the wisdom and prudence in Joseph's government.
There is one sweet lesson however to be derive...
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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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WHEREFORE SHALL WE DIE BEFORE THINE EYES, BOTH WE AND OUR LAND?....
Beholding their miserable condition, and not helping them; die they
must unless they had bread to eat, and their land die also if th...
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_Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy
us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto
Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, th...
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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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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SEVERE FAMINE....
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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? They
had stated their plight frankly, and now looked to Joseph for relief.
BUY US AND OUR LAND FOR BREAD, AND WE AND OUR LAND WILL BE SE...
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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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13-26 Care being taken of Jacob and his family, which mercy was
especially designed by Providence in Joseph's advancement, an account
is given of the saving the kingdom of Egypt from ruin. There was...
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WHEREFORE SHALL WE DIE BEFORE THINE EYES, i.e. whilst thou lookest
upon us like an idle spectator, not pitying and relieving us? The land
is said to die improperly, when it is desolate and barren, and...
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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 47:19 die H4191 (H8799) eyes H5869 land H127 Buy H7069 (H8798)
land H127 bread H3899 land...
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‘And when that year ended they came to him the second year and said
to him, “We will not hide from my lord how that our silver is all
spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing lef...
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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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_Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt,
and in the Land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph
brought the money into Pharaoh’s house_
THE MORALITY OF JO...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:18 With no money and no livestock, the
Egyptians sell their land and even themselves, as debt-slaves, to
Pharaoh. They also ask for seed to grow for the future. Joseph
willi...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 47:21. He removed them to cities.] Heb.—_According to the
cities._ “Thus he distributed the population of the land in and
around the cities _according to the cities_ in which...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 47:11
AND JOSEPH PLACED HIS FATHER AND HIS BRETHREN (_i.e._ gave them a
settlement, the import of which the next clause explains), AND GAVE
THEM A POSSESSION (_i.e._ allowed them t...
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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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buy us. Nehemiah 5:2 Nehemiah 5:3 Job 2:4 Lamentations 1:11
Lamentations