Genesis 50:22

_AND JOSEPH DWELT IN EGYPT, HE, AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSE: AND JOSEPH LIVED AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS._ Joseph dwelt in Egypt. He lived 80 years after his elevation to the chief power, witnessing a great increase in the prosperity of the kingdom, and also of his own family and kindred-the infant congregation of God (see further the note at Genesis 50:26)....

22._And Joseph dwelt in Egypt_. It is not without reason that Moses relates how long Joseph lived, because the length of the time shows the more clearly his unfailing constancy: for although he is raised to great honor and power among she Egyptians, he still is closely united with his father’s house. Hence it is easy to conjecture, that he gradually took his leave of the treasures of the court, because he thought there was nothing better for him to do than to hold them in contempt, lest earthly dignity should separate him from the kingdom of God. He had before spurned all the allurements which might have occupied his mind in Egypt: he now counts it necessary to proceed further, that, laying aside his honor, he may descend to an ignoble condition, and wean his own sons from the hope of succeeding to his worldly rank. We know how anxiously others labor, both that they themselves may not be...

22-26 Joseph having honoured his father, his days were long in the land, which, for the present, God had given him. When he saw his death approaching, he comforted his brethren with the assurance of their return to Canaan in due time. We must comfort others with the same comforts with which we have been comforted of God, and encourage them to rest on the promises which are our support. For a confession of his own faith, and a confirmation of theirs, he charges them to keep his remains unburied till that glorious day, when they should be settled in the land of promise. Thus Joseph, by faith in the doctrine of the resurrection, and the promise of Canaan, gave commandment concerning his bones. This would keep up their expectation of a speedy departure from Egypt, and keep Canaan continually in their minds. This would also attach Joseph's posterity to their brethren. The death, as well as t...

Verse Genesis 50:22. _JOSEPH DWELT IN EGYPT_] Continued in Egypt after his return from Canaan till his death; _he, and his father's house_-all the _descendants_ of Israel, till the _exodus_ or departure under the direction of Moses and Aaron, which was one hundred and forty-four years after....

- 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 Jacob and the death of Joseph, and so completes the history of the chosen family, and the third bible for the instruction of man. Genesis 50:1 After the natural outburst of sorrow for his deceased parent, Joseph gave orders to embalm the body, according to the custom of Egypt. “His servants, the physicians.” As the grand vizier of Egypt, he has physicians in his retinue. The classes and functions of the physicians in Egy

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 us, or pursued us hostilely (_sc_._ _what would become of us?), לוּ with the imperfect or future setting forth a possible but undesirable contingency—AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US (literally, _if returning he caused to return upon us_) ALL THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM. "What then?" is the natural conclusion of the sentence. "We must be utterly undone." GENESIS 50:16,...

AND JOSEPH DWELT IN EGYPT, HE, AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSE,.... Comfortably, quietly, and in great prosperity, not only he, but his brethren and their families, as long as he lived: AND JOSEPH LIVED ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS; and all but seventeen of them in Egypt, for at that age it was when he was brought thither: thirteen years he lived in Potiphar's house, and in prison, for he was thirty years of age when he was brought to Pharaoh, and stood before him, and fourscore years he lived in the greatest honour and prosperity that a man could well wish for....

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 50:24) This great book which begins with the perfect and good creation of God ends with a burial and the last words are “a coffin in Egypt.” What havoc sin has wrought. Jacob died 147 years old and after his body was embalmed was carried to Canaan. Read in connection with Joseph's death Exodus 13:19,...

JOSEPH LIVED AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS— A shorter life than his ancestors; because he was the son, says Bishop Patrick, of his father's old age, and lived a great part of his time amidst afflictions and care, having the weight of a great kingdom's affairs lying upon him; for eighty of these years he spent in AEgypt, being but thirty years old when he _first stood before Pharaoh._ Shuckford says that he governed AEgypt during the reigns of four kings, and died in the twentieth year of the reign of _Ramesse-Tubeate,_ fifty two years after his father, and in the year of the world 2367. He had the pleasure of seeing his father's prophetic blessing upon his two sons in part fulfilled; for he saw great-grandchildren from Ephraim; and grandchildren from one branch of Manasseh, Genesis 50:23 _were brought up upon Joseph's knees;_ that is, according to the Chaldee, were brought up or e

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 he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession._ 5 And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egyp