Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Genesis 50:21
Your little ones. — Heb., your “tafs” rendered in the LXX., “your households,” and in the Syriac, “your families,” your dependents — its usual translation in that Version.
Your little ones. — Heb., your “tafs” rendered in the LXX., “your households,” and in the Syriac, “your families,” your dependents — its usual translation in that Version.
- 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 ...
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 WHEN JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US, AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US ALL THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM._ When Joseph's brethren saw...
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...
וְ עַתָּה֙ אַל ־תִּירָ֔אוּ אָנֹכִ֛י אֲכַלְכֵּ֥ל...
JOSEPH LOVES UNTIL HIS DEATH Genesis 50:15 The fear of Joseph's brethren illustrates the insecurity of a position which is conceded only at the bidding of the tender caprice of love, apart from satis...
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...
Genesis 45:5. - Nothing can be more satisfactory in proof of a work of grace in the heart, than when believers pass by second causes to keep in view the LORD'S hand in all appointments....
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...
21._I will nourish you_. It was a token of a solid and not a feigned reconciliation, not only to abstain from malice and injury, but also to “overcome evil with good,” as Paul teaches, (Romans 12:21 :...
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...
NOW THEREFORE, FEAR YE NOT,.... Which, is repeated to dispossess them of every fear they might entertain of him on any account whatever: I WILL NOURISH YOU, AND YOUR LITTLE ONES; provide food for the...
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. Ver. 21. _I will nourish you._] To requite your kindness, that consulted to sta...
_Ye thought evil, but God meant it unto good_ In order to the making Joseph a greater blessing to his family than otherwise he could have been. _Fear not, I will nourish you_ See what an excellent spi...
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...
Now, therefore, fear ye not; I will nourish you and your little ones. His kind favor would be with them as heretofore. AND HE COMFORTED THEM, AND SPAKE KINDLY UNTO THEM, thus giving an example of true...
Joseph Reassures his Brothers...
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...
KINDLY UNTO THEM: _ Heb._ to their hearts...
15-21 Various motives might cause the sons of Jacob to continue in Egypt, notwithstanding the prophetic vision Abraham had of their bondage there. Judging of Joseph from the general temper of human n...
I WILL NOURISH YOU; expect not only a free pardon from me, but all the kindness of a loving brother....
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 50:21 afraid H3372 (H8799) provide H3557 (H8770) ones H2945 comforted H5162 (H8762) spoke H1696 ...
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...
_He comforted them, and spake kindly unto them_ JOSEPH’S LAST FORGIVENESS OF HIS BRETHREN: I. THEIR NEED OF FORGIVENESS. II. THE PLEA ON WHICH THEY URGE IT (Genesis 50:16). 1. The dying request of...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:18 Probably encouraged by news of Joseph’s kind response to their message, the BROTHERS CAME AND FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM. Once again, their bowing and their words, Behold, we a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:15. Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering is—_If Joseph should now punish us_, _and re...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:15 AND WHEN (literally _and_)_ _JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY (literally, and they) SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US,—literally, _If Joseph _hated...
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...
I will nourish. Genesis 45:10 Genesis 45:11 Genesis 47:12 Matthew 5:44...
Fear not, I will nourish you — See what an excellent spirit Joseph was of, and learn of him to render good for evil. He did not tell them they were upon their good behaviour, and he would be kind to t...