Genesis 50:26

_SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD: AND THEY EMBALMED HIM,_ So Joseph died, being, an hundred and ten years old. Bunsen, whose semi-rationalistic system led him to reduce the longevity of the patriarchs to the present ordinary standard of life, does not allow ('Egypt's Place,' iii., p. 342) that Joseph, when he died, exceeded 78 years of age, grounding an argument on the circumstance that, had he been as old as the text represents, he must have seen not the children of Machir only, but Machir's grandchildren. Gesenius shows, on critical principles, that Joseph actually did so: for (Genesis 50:23) he saw Ephraim's х_ BªNEEY_ (H1121) _ SHILEESHIYM_ (H8029)] children of the thirds, i:e., children of great-grandchildren-viz., the fourth generation. [See...

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 50:26. _JOSEPH DIED, BEING A HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD_] בן מאה ועשר שנים _ben meah vaeser shanim_; literally, _the son of a_ _hundred and ten years_. Here the _period_ of time he lived is _personified_, all the years of which it was composed being represented as a _nurse_ or _father_, feeding, nourishing, and supporting him to the end. This figure, which is termed by rhetoricians _prosopopaeia_, is very frequent in Scripture; and by this _virtues, vices, forms, attributes_, and _qualities_, with every part of _inanimate nature_, are represented as endued with _reason_ and _speech_, and performing all the actions of _intelligent_ beings. _THEY EMBALMED HIM_] Genesis 50:2

- 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,...

SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD,.... The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor x, from Demetrius an Heathen. The Jewish writers y say, that he died the first of the twelve patriarchs, though he was the youngest of them; he died, according to Bishop Usher z, in the year of the world 2369, and before Christ 1635: AND THEY EMBALMED HIM; his servants, the physicians, according to the manner of the Egyptians, and as his father Jacob had been embalmed, Genesis 50:2, AND HE WAS PUT INTO A COFFIN IN EGYPT; in an ark or chest, very probably into such an one in which the Egyptians had used to put dead bodies when embalmed; which Herodotus a calls a θηκα, or chest, and which they set up against a wall: in what part of Egypt this coffin was put is not certain, it was most likely in Goshen, and in the care and custody of some of Joseph'

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,...

AND THEY EMBALMED HIM, AND HE WAS PUT IN A COFFIN— The same care of his body was taken as of that of his father Jacob; he was _embalmed_ and _put into a coffin,_ which was considered as a mark of distinction. With us the poorest people have their coffins; if the relations cannot afford them, the parish is at that expence. In the East, on the contrary, they are not at all made use of in our times. Christians and Turks, Thevenot assures us, part i. p. 58. agree in this. The ancient Jews seem to have buried their dead in the same manner; neither was the body of our Lord, it should seem, put into a coffin; nor that of Elisha, whose bones were touched by the corpse that was let down a _little after_ into his sepulchre, 2 Kings 13:21. That they, however, were anciently made use of in AEgypt, all agree; and antique coffins of stone and sycamore wood are still to be seen in that cou

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

50:26 coffin (b-20) Lit. 'ark.' Same word as used for the ark in Exodus 25:10 and elsewhere....