Genesis 50:24

_AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, I DIE: AND GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU, AND BRING YOU OUT OF THIS LAND UNTO THE LAND WHICH HE SWARE TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB._ I DIE - or, 'I am dying.' The national feelings of the Egyptians would have been opposed to his burial in Canaan; and therefore he said nothing regarding his immediate interment; but he gave the strongest proof of the strength of his faith and full assurance of the promises by "the commandment concerning his bones" (Hebrews 11:22). It is evident from his dying injunction, that he had not allowed himself to be so immersed with the politics, the honours, or the pleasures of a foreign and a pagan capital as to obliterate the memory of, or shake his faith in, the divine promises to Israel....

24._And Joseph said unto his brethren_. It is uncertain whether Joseph died the first or the last of the brethren, or whether a part of them survived him. Here indeed Moses includes, under the name of brethren, not only those who were really so, but other relations. I think, however, that certain of the chiefs of each family were called at his command, from whom the whole of the people might receive information: and although it is probable that the other patriarchs also gave the same command respecting themselves, since the bones of them all were, in like manner, conveyed into the land of Canaan; yet special mention is made of Joseph alone, for two reasons. First, since the eyes of them all were fixed upon him, on account of his high authority, it was his duty to lead their way, and cautiously to beware lest the splendor of his dignity should cast a stumbling block before any of them. Se...

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 50:24. _JOSEPH SAID - I DIE_] That is, I am dying; _and God will_ _surely visit you _- he will yet again give you, in the time when it shall be essentially necessary, the most signal proof of his unbounded love towards the seed of Jacob. _AND BRING YOU OUT OF THIS LAND_] Though ye have here every thing that can render life comfortable, yet this is not the _typical_ _land_, the _land given by covenant_, the land which represents the _rest_ that remains for the people of God....

- 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 SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, I DIE,.... Some time before his death he called them together, and observed to them, that he expected to die in a little time, as all must: AND GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU; not in a way of wrath and vindictive justice, as he sometimes does, but in a way of love, grace, and mercy: AND BRING YOU OUT OF THIS LAND; the land of Egypt, in which they then dwelt: UNTO THE LAND WHICH HE SWARE TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB; meaning the land of Canaan, which he swore to those patriarchs that he would give to their posterity....

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,...

GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU— See ch. Genesis 21:1. The subsequent words, _and bring you out of this land,_ evidently shew in what manner Joseph believed that GOD would visit the Israelites. Thus he died in the same faith with his ancestors, agreeable to what the apostle to the Hebrews says: _By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones._ Hebrews 11:22....

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