Genesis 50:22-26 NLT

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:26

Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old - שנים ועשר מאה בן 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... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:22

Verse 22 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... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:24

Verse 24 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... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

Verse 25 25.God will surely visit you. By these words he intimates that they would be buried as in oblivion, so long as they remained in Egypt: and truly that exile was as if God had turned his back on them for a season. Nevertheless, Joseph does not cease to fix the eyes of his mind on God; as it is written in the Prophet, “I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob.” (Isaiah 8:17.) This passage also clearly teaches what was the design of this anxious choice of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

Retrospect and prospect. The fellowship of Egypt with the children of Israel in the burial of Jacob is full of significance. " A very great company went with them." "Abel-Mizraim" the Canaanites called it, "a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." It seemed to them altogether an Egyptian funeral. Yet we know that it was not. The work of God's grace will transform the world that it shall not be recognized. The funeral itself said, Egypt is not our home. It pointed with prophetic... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:15-26

The last of the house of Jacob. I. JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN ( Genesis 50:15-18 ). 1. The unworthy suspicion . After Jacob's death, Joseph's brethren began to fear lest he should seek to revenge himself on account of his early injuries. It was perhaps natural that such an apprehension should arise within their breasts, considering the enormity of the wickedness of which they had been guilty; but remembering all the tokens of Joseph's love which already they had received, it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:22

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. Wordsworth notices that Joshua, who superintended the burial of Joseph in Shechem, also lived 110 years. Joseph's death occurred fifty-six years after that of Jacob. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation:—i.e . Ephraim's great-grandchildren (Kalisch, Lange), or Ephraim's great-great-grandsons (Keil, Murphy), which perhaps was not impossible, since Ephraim must have been born before Joseph's thirty-seventh year, thus allowing at least sixty-three years for four generations to intervene before the patriarch's death, which might be, if marriage happened early, say not later than eighteen— the children also of Machir the son of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:24-25

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God (Elohim) will surely visit you ,—literally, visiting will visit you, according to his promise ( Genesis 46:4 )— and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, —as his father had done of him ( Genesis 47:31 ),— saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence . The writer to the Hebrews ( Genesis 11:22 )... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old (literally, a son of a hundred and ten years ) , and they ( i.e. the children of Israel) embalmed him ( vide on Genesis 50:2 ), and he was put in a coffin (or chest, i.e. a mummy case, which was commonly constructed of sycamore wood) in Egypt , where he remained for a period of 360 years, until the time of the Exodus, when, according to the engagement now given, his remains were carried up to Canaan, and solemnly... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:15-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:24-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:26

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