Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 47:29-31
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 47:29-31ISRAEL’S PREPARATION FOR DEATHJacob felt that the inevitable hour was drawing nigh. “The time drew nigh that Israel must die,”—even this man who had “power over the angel and prevailed.” He calmly prepares for the end of his earthly pilgrimage:—I. By an act of faith. He engages Joseph by a solemn oath not to bury him in Egypt, but in the sepulchre of his fathers in Canaan. There was in this request the expression of a natural feeling. Men... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:30
I will lie with my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, in Canaan. See Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:9; Genesis 35:29. Which he desired not so much for himself, as knowing that wherever he was buried he should rise to glory; as for his children, to show his own, and confirm their faith in God’s promise of Canaan; to discover his high valuation of that land, not only for itself, but as it was a type and pledge of the heavenly inheritance; to keep his children’s minds and hearts loose from Egypt, a place of... read more