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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 47:7

Jacob blessed Pharaoh. — The presentation of Jacob to Pharaoh seems to have been a much more solemn matter than that of Joseph’s brethren. Pharaoh looks upon them with interest as the brothers of his vizier, grants their request for leave to dwell in Goshen, and even empowers Joseph to make the ablest of them chief herdsmen over the royal cattle. But Jacob had attained to an age which gave him great dignity: for to an Egyptian 120 was the utmost limit of longevity. Jacob was now 130, and Pharaoh treats him with the greatest honour, and twice accepts his blessing. More must be meant by this than the usual salutation, in which each one presented to the king prayed for the prolongation of his life. Pharaoh probably bowed before Jacob as a saintly personage, and received a formal benediction.

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See also Genesis 47:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 47:7. _JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH._] Saluted him on his entrance with _Peace be unto thee_, or some such expression of respect and good will. For the meaning of the term _to bless_, as appli...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    II. THE PATRIARCH AND THE KING. 7. JOSEPH BROUGHT IN JACOB HIS FATHER AND SET HIM BEFORE PHARAOH. It was only after this formal transaction and the settlement of the question of. temporary home in Eg...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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 thou?...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH— When the word, _bless,_ says Calmet, is applied to God, it signifies to _thank,_ or _praise;_ when to men, it signifies, _to wish them health, prosperity,_ or _happiness:_ in wh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND JOSEPH BROUGHT IN JACOB HIS FATHER, AND SET HIM BEFORE PHARAOH: AND JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH._ Joseph brought in ... There is a pathetic and most affecting interest attending this interview with ro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֵ֤א יֹוסֵף֙ אֶת ־יַֽעֲקֹ֣ב אָבִ֔יו וַ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Blessed him, Pharao; saying, perhaps, God save the king; or, O king live for ever: thus wishing that he might enjoy all sorts of blessings. (Menochius) --- It is generally taken in this sense, when m...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe Jacob counts his years as days, so Job 14:1; Psalms 90:10; Psalms 90:10....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._And Joseph brought in Jacob his father_. Although Moses relates, in a continuous narrative, that Jacob was brought to the king, yet I do not doubt that some time had intervened; at least, till he h...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JOSEPH BROUGHT IN JACOB HIS FATHER,.... That is, some time after he had introduced his five brethren, and had gotten the grant of Goshen for them, when he sent, for his father from thence, or he c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh._ Ver. 7. _Jacob blessed Pharaoh._] That is, he prayed God to bless him, both at meeting and parting. To...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Jacob blessed Pharaoh_ Which is repeated, Genesis 47:10, as being a circumstance very remarkable. And remarkable surely it was that the _greater_, for such Pharaoh was in all external things, in weal...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JACOB AND FIVE OF HIS SONS PRESENTED TO PHARAOH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, after the first part of the audience had terminated so successfully, AND SET HIM BEFORE PHARAOH, presented him to the king; AND JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH. It was n...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Not in an authoritative way, as the greater blesseth the less, but in a general manner, i.e. he saluted him, thanked him for all his favours to him and his, and prayed to God to bless and recompense h...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 47:7 Joseph H3130 in H935 (H8686) father H1 Jacob H3290 set H5975 (H8686) before H6440 Pharaoh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Joseph brought in Jacob his father_ JOSEPH AND HIS FATHER I. JOSEPH HONOURED HIS FATHER JACOB BY SHOWING HIM THE UTMOST RESPECT (Genesis 46:29). II. JOSEPH HONOURED HIS FATHER BY SHOWING HIS LO...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:7 Joseph introduces his father Jacob to Pharaoh. JACOB BLESSED PHARAOH (vv. Genesis 47:7,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 47:2. Five men.] The number _five_ was a favourite number with the Egyptians. (Genesis 41:34; Genesis 42:34; Gene

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 fl...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    And Jacob. Genesis 47:10 Exodus 12:32 Numbers 6:23 Numbers 6:24 Joshua 14:13

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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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