Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Genesis 47:31
Bowed himself upon the bed's head] perhaps better, 'worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff,' as in Hebrews 11:21. The Hebrew words for 'bed' and 'staff' are very like each other.
Bowed himself upon the bed's head] perhaps better, 'worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff,' as in Hebrews 11:21. The Hebrew words for 'bed' and 'staff' are very like each other.
Verse Genesis 47:31. _AND ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD._] Jacob was now both old and feeble, and we may suppose him reclined on his couch when Joseph came; that he afterwards sat up erect...
- 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 ...
GENESIS 47:27 TO GENESIS 48:22. JACOB EXTRACTS AN OATH THAT JOSEPH WILL BURY HIM IN CANAAN, AND BLESSES EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH. Genesis 47:22 f.,...
BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD— The Septuagint and Syriac versions render this, _Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff;_ and I see no sort of reason why the Hebrew should not have been render...
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 THE TIME DREW NIGH THAT ISRAEL MUST DIE: AND HE CALLED HIS SON JOSEPH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, PUT, I PRAY THEE, THY HAND UNDER MY THIGH, AND DEAL KINDLY AND TR...
47:31 head. (a-18) Hebrews 11:21 is according to the LXX. 'the top of his staff.'...
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...
ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED’S HEAD. — The LXX., followed by the Epistle to the Hebrews (Genesis 11:21) and the Syriac, read, “on the top of his staff.” The word in the Hebrew, without vowels, ma...
וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר הִשָּֽׁבְעָה֙ לִ֔י וַ יִּשָּׁבַ֖ע...
JOSEPH VISITS HIS DYING FATHER Genesis 47:27; Genesis 48:1 How inexorable is the _must_ of death! For many years Jacob had exceeded the ordinary span of human life, and now, like the last apple on th...
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...
JACOB'S FINAL DAYS The writer gives a brief record of the rest of Jacob's life before he gives details of the events surrounding the time of his death. Jacob lived seventeen more years in Egypt and s...
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel (k) bowed himself upon the bed's head. (k) He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, and setting himself up on his pillows, praised God;...
To the bed's head. St. Paul, (Hebrews xi. 21,) following the Greek translation of the Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where note, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the differ...
May we not spiritualize this promise confirmed by an oath? Doth not JESUS in effect promise the same, to all his people. John 11:25; Hosea 13:14; Hebrews 6:17;...
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...
31._And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head_. By this expression, Moses again affirms that Jacob esteemed it a singular kindness, that his son should have promised to do what he had required resp...
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...
AND HE SAID, SWEAR UNTO ME,.... This he required, not from any distrust of Joseph, but to show his own eagerness, and the intenseness of his mind about this thing, how much he was set upon it, and wha...
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. Ver. 31. _And Israel bowed himself._] In way of thankfulness to God, framing himself to the lowliest g...
Gen. 47:31. The bowing here spoken of is a bowing of adoration, or a bowing to worship God, as is confirmed by what is said of David, parallel to this, 1 Kings 1:47; 1 Kings 1:48, and also by Hebrews...
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...
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. He was apparently sitting up on his couch and leaning on his staff, Hebrews 11:21. He now turned to the...
JOSEPH'S PROMISE TO JACOB...
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...
27-31 At last the time drew nigh that Israel must die. Israel, a prince with God, had power over the Angel, and prevailed, yet must die. Joseph supplied him with bread, that he might not die by famin...
ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF, not to Joseph, who being now not upon his throne, nor amongst the Egyptians, but in his father's house, was doubtless more ready to pay that reverence (as he did GENESIS 48:12) t...
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 47:31 said H559 (H8799) Swear H7650 (H8734) swore H7650 (H8735) Israel H3478 bowed H7812 ...
THE FAMILY TRIBE PROSPER - JACOB'S PLEA (GENESIS 47:27) Genesis 47:27 ‘And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they obtained possessions in it and were fruitful, and multip...
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...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:28 Jacob’s approaching death, at age 147, dominates the final chapters of Genesis 1:1. put your hand under my thig
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:27 While the Egyptians struggle to survive during the famine, Jacob’s family grows and prospers. The idea of being fruitful and multiplying first appears in Genesis 1:22,...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 47:29_ ISRAEL’S PREPARATION FOR DEATH Jacob felt that the inevitable hour was drawing nigh. “The time drew nigh that Israel must die,”—even this man who h...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 47:28 AND JACOB LIVED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT SEVENTEEN YEARS: SO THE WHOLE AGE OF JACOB WAS (literally, _the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were_)_ _AN HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN...
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...
Swear. Genesis 24:3 And Israel bowed. Genesis 47:29 Genesis 24:26 Genesis 48:1...
(CF. GENESIS 47:31)— Is there a discrepancy regarding the death of Jacob? PROBLEM: Hebrews mentions that Jacob died worshiping, “leaning on the top of his staff” (11:21). Yet Genesis 47:31 mentions J...