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Verse Genesis 47:9. _THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE_]
מגורי _megurai_, of my _sojourning_ or _wandering_. Jacob had
always lived a migratory or wandering life, in different parts of
Canaan, M...
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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
ad...
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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 (Genesis 47:27)
Jacob...
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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 Genesis 46:6 f. is from P, as are Genesis 47:5_...
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THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE ARE AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY
YEARS.
Jacob speaks of his life as. pilgrimage. It had been in the literal
sense. He had left his father's house, long sojourned in Pad...
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DISCOURSE: 58
JACOB’S INTERVIEW WITH PHARAOH
Genesis 47:7. _And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto
Jacob, How old art tho...
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OF MY PILGRIMAGE— The life of a believer is no other than a
pilgrimage; while distant from his heavenly country, he has no abiding
city. This is the beautiful idea, under which the language of sacred...
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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 JACOB SAID UNTO PHARAOH, THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE
ARE AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS: FEW AND EVIL HAVE THE DAYS OF THE
YEARS OF MY LIFE BEEN, AND HAVE NOT ATTAINED UNTO THE DAYS OF TH...
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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 br...
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MY PILGRIMAGE. — Heb., _my sojournings;_ and so at end of verse. The
idea of a pilgrimage is a modern one. Even in 1 Peter 2:11
“pilgrim” means in the Greek a stranger who has settled in a
country of...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ אֶל ־פַּרְעֹ֔ה
יְמֵי֙ שְׁנֵ֣י מְגוּרַ֔י שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים
וּ מְאַ֖ת שָׁנָ֑ה מְעַ֣ט וְ...
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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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_Pilgrimage. He hardly deigns to style it life, as he was worn out
with labour and sorrows, and was drawing fast to an end, so much
sooner than his ancestors. Isaac had lived 180 years, and was only
d...
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Observe Jacob counts his years as days, so Job 14:1; Psalms 90:10;
Psalms 90:10....
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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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_A TIRED PILGRIM_
‘And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage
are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the
years of my life been,’ etc.
Genesis 47:9
T...
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9._Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been_. Jacob may
here seem to complain that he had lived but a little while, and that,
in this short space of time, he had endured many and grievo...
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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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JACOB SAID UNTO PHARAOH, THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE [ARE]
AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS,.... He calls his life a "pilgrimage"; as
every good man's is; they are not at home in their own count...
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_And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage
[are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the
years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of...
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Observe, 1st, Jacob calls his life a _pilgrimage_, looking upon
himself as a stranger in this world, and a traveller toward another.
He reckoned himself not only a pilgrim now he was in Egypt, a stran...
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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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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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7-12 With the gravity of old age, the piety of a true believer, and
the authority of a patriarch and a prophet, Jacob besought the Lord to
bestow a blessing upon Pharaoh. He acted as a man not ashame...
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MY PILGRIMAGE, i.e. my unstable or unsettled life, in which I have
been flitting from place to place. See GENESIS 17:8 PSALMS 119:19
HEBREWS 11:9,13. And though I seem old in comparison of thy people,...
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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 47:9 Jacob H3290 said H559 (H8799) Pharaoh H6547 days H3117
years H8141 pilgrimage H4033 hundred H3967 thirty H7970 years H8141
few H4592 evil H7451 days H3117 years H8141 life H2416 attained...
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Genesis 47:9
Those who looked only on the outer life of Jacob would scarcely have
thought that his days were either few or evil. It was conscience that
spoke out in these words conscience, which so o...
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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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_And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage
are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the
years of my life been_
A PENSIVE RETROSPECT
I. LIFE HAS BEEN TO...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:7 Joseph introduces his father Jacob to
Pharaoh. JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH (vv. Genesis 47:7, Genesis 47:10). This
could have been simply words of greeting and farewell. But it...
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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; Genesis 45:22; Genesis
47:2).—
GENESIS 47:7. JACOB BLESSED PHARA...
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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 F...
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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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The days. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalms 39:12 Psalms 119:19 Psalms 119:54
2 Corinthians 5:6 Hebrews 11:9 Hebrews 13:14 1 Peter 2:11 and hundred.
Job 14:1...
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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...
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Observe Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage, looking upon himself as a
stranger in this world, and a traveller towards another. He reckoned
himself not only a pilgrim now he was in Egypt, a strange coun...