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 servants unto Pharaoh, they were willing to sell themselves into slavery or peonage; and give us seed that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate. It was a last, but also the only, desperate resort.
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...
- 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
_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...
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...
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...
לָ֧מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְ עֵינֶ֗יךָ גַּם ־אֲנַ֨חְנוּ֙...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our (f) 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,...
_Servants. A person may part with his liberty, to preserve life. (Menochius)_...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Genesis 47:19 die H4191 (H8799) eyes H5869 land H127 Buy H7069 (H8798) land H127 bread H3899 land...
‘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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
buy us. Nehemiah 5:2 Nehemiah 5:3 Job 2:4 Lamentations 1:11 Lamentations