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Genesis 50:6
And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Pharaoh's regard for Joseph, as for a faithful servant, had in no wise been diminished, and he readily granted the request.
And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Pharaoh's regard for Joseph, as for a faithful servant, had in no wise been diminished, and he readily granted the request.
- 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...
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 ...
GENESIS 49:28 _ b_ - GENESIS 50:13. DEATH AND BURIAL OF JACOB. Genesis 49:28 _b_ - Genesis 49:33;...
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:...
_AND PHARAOH SAID, GO UP, AND BURY THY FATHER, ACCORDING AS HE MADE THEE SWEAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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...
וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֑ה עֲלֵ֛ה וּ קְבֹ֥ר אֶת
JACOB MOURNED AND BURIED Genesis 50:4 The days of mourning for Jacob were only two less in number than for a king. Three hundred miles were traversed by that splendid funeral cavalcade, which include...
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...
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...
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according (c) as he made thee swear. (c) Even the infidels would have oaths carried out....
How falsely sometimes we calculate! Jacob talked of going down to the grave to his children. But a gracious GOD here permits Jacob's funeral to be followed by all his children. See Genesis 42:38....
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...
6._And Pharaoh said_. We have seen that Joseph adopts a middle course. For he was not willing utterly to fail in his duty; yet, by catching at a pretext founded on the command of his father, he did no...
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...
AND PHARAOH SAID,.... To Joseph, by the courtiers that waited upon him at Joseph's request, who having delivered it to him had this answer: GO UP, AND BURY THY FATHER, AS HE MADE THEE SWEAR; the oath...
_And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear._ Ver. 6. _As he made thee swear._] Oaths must be religiously kept, even those that are private, betwixt friend and frie...
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...
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...
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...
1-6 Though pious relatives and friends have lived to a good old age, and we are confident they are gone to glory, yet we may regret our own loss, and pay respect to their memory by lamenting them. Gr...
The heathens by the light of nature discovered the sacredness of an oath, and the wickedness of perjury....
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 50:6 Pharaoh H6547 said H559 (H8799) up H5927 (H8798) bury H6912 (H8798) father H1 swear...
THE BURIAL OF JACOB IN CANAAN (50:1-13). Genesis 50:1 ‘And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father,...
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...
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...
_Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father_ THE HONOUR PAID TO THE DEPARTED JACOB: I. PRIVATE. 1. The tears of his family. 2. The respect paid to last wishes. II. PUBLIC....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:2. The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.— GENESIS 50:3. MOURNED FOR HIM THREE SCORE AND TEN...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:1 AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED HIM. Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his revered and beloved parent, as God had promised to the pa...
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...
as he made. Genesis 48:21...