Genesis 46:29

_AND JOSEPH MADE READY HIS CHARIOT, AND WENT UP TO MEET ISRAEL HIS FATHER, TO GOSHEN, AND PRESENTED HIMSELF UNTO HIM; AND HE FELL ON HIS NECK, AND WEPT ON HIS NECK A GOOD WHILE._ And Joseph made ready his chariot. The difference between chariot and wagon was not only in the lighter and more elegant construction of the former, but in the one being drawn by horses, if it be true that the shepherd kings introduced these (Rawlinson's 'Herodotus,' b. 2:, chapter cciii., note), and the other by oxen. Being a public man in Egypt, Joseph was required to appear everywhere in a horse-drawn carriage suitable to his dignity; and therefore it was not owing either to pride or ostentatious parade that he drove his carriage, while his father's family were accomodated only in rude and humble wagons. WENT UP - i:e., north to Goshen. PRESENTED HIMSELF - literally, showed himself, appeared. This form of...

28-34 It was justice to Pharaoh to let him know that such a family was come to settle in his dominions. If others put confidence in us, we must not be so base as to abuse it by imposing upon them. But how shall Joseph dispose of his brethren? Time was, when they were contriving to be rid of him; now he is contriving to settle them to their advantage; this is rendering good for evil. He would have them live by themselves, in the land of Goshen, which lay nearest to Canaan. Shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians. Yet Joseph would have them not ashamed to own this as their occupation before Pharaoh. He might have procured places for them at court or in the army. But such preferments would have exposed them to the envy of the Egyptians, and might have tempted them to forget Canaan and the promise made unto their fathers. An honest calling is no disgrace, nor ought we to account it s...

Verse Genesis 46:29. _AND JOSEPH MADE READY HIS CHARIOT_] מרכבתו _mercabto_. In Genesis 41:43, we have the first mention of a chariot, and if the translation be correct, it is a proof that the arts were not in a rude state in Egypt even at this early time. When we find _wagons_ used to transport _goods_ from place to place, we need not wonder that these suggested the idea of forming _chariots_ for carrying _persons_, and especially those of high rank and authority. _Necessity_ produces arts, and _arts_ and _science_ produce not only an increase of the _conveniences_ but also of the _refinements_ and _luxuries_ of life. It has been supposed that a _chariot_ is not intended here; for as the word מרכבה _mercabah_, which we and most of th...

- Jacob Goes Down to Egypt 9. פלוּא _pallû'_, Pallu, “distinguished.” חצרן _chetsrôn_, Chetsron, of the “court,” or “village.” כרמי _karmı̂y_, Karmi, “vine-dresser.” 10. ימוּאל _y__e__mû'êl_, Jemuel, “day of El.” ימין _yâmı̂yn_, Jamin, “right hand.” אהד _'ôhad_, Ohad, “joining together.” יכין _yâkı̂yn_, Jakin, “he shall establish.” צחר _tsôchar_, Tsochar, “whiteness.” 11. גרשׁון _gêr__e__shôn_, Gereshon, “expelling.” קהת _q__e__hâth_, Qe

EXPOSITION GENESIS 46:1 AND ISRAEL (as the head of the theocratic family) TOOK HIS JOURNEY—_literally, broke up, _sc. his encampment (cf. Genesis 12:9)—WITH ALL THAT HE HAD, AND CAME—from Hebron (Genesis 37:14)—TO BEERSHEBA,—where Abraham (Genesis 21:33) and Isaac (Genesis 26:25) had both sojourned for considerable periods, and erected altars to Jehovah—AND OFFERED SACRIFICES UNTO THE GOD (the Elohim) of his father Isa

AND JOSEPH MADE READY HIS CHARIOT,.... Or "bound" y it, fastened the horses to it, harnessed them, and put them to; this he did not himself, as Jarchi thinks, for the honour of his father; but rather, as Aben Ezra, by ordering his servants to do it: AND WENT UP TO MEET ISRAEL HIS FATHER IN GOSHEN; that being higher than the other part of Egypt, as it must be, if it was in Thebes, or upper Egypt, as some Jewish writers say z; and Fium, supposed to be the place the Israelites dwelt in, see Genesis 47:11, stood very high a: AND PRESENTED HIMSELF UNTO HIM; alighted from his chariot, and came up to his father, and stood before him, and showed himself to him, declaring who he was: AND HE FELL ON HIS NECK, AND WEPT ON HIS NECK A GOOD WHILE: either Jacob fell on the neck of Joseph, and wept over him a good while before he could speak to hi

CHAPTER 46 JACOB GOES DOWN TO EGYPT _ 1. Israel's departure and the vision (Genesis 46:1)_ 2. The journey and the arrival in Egypt (Genesis 46:5) 3. The offspring of the sons of Jacob (Genesis 46:8) 4. Israel meets Joseph (Genesis 46:28) 5. Joseph's directions concerning Pharaoh (Genesis 46:31 The whole family of Jacob, consisting of seventy souls, exclusive of the wives and the servants, came to Egypt. Once more God appears to Israel, but addresses him as Jacob. He gives him permission to go down to

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 Genesis 46:6 f. is from P, as are Genesis 47:5_ a_, Genesis 46:7. The rest is JE. To E belong Genesis 46:1 (in the main) and perhaps Genesis 47:12

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 went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number. 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name

46:29 while. (c-35) Or 'continuously.'...