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Matthew Poole

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

Joseph Exell

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

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 47:1-31

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the forty-seventh chapter of Genesis?Joseph has been sold by his brothers as a slave to the traders going to Egypt. In Egypt he is resold and purchased by a man named Potiphar who was the chief captain of the Pharaoh's guard. God prospered him and blessed him in Potiphar's house. Potiphar's house was blessed because of Joseph's being there. He made Joseph the head over everything he had. But Potiphar's wife set her eye upon Joseph, sought to seduce him. When... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:1-31

Genesis 47:2. Some of his brethren. ומקצה vemi-ketzeh extremitate, as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2, when describing the five valiant and enterprising Danites. Genesis 47:8. How old art thou? Pharaoh appears to have been struck with Jacob’s gray hairs, and venerable appearance. His troubles had probably made him look older than he really was. Genesis 47:10. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, being a patriarch,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 47:29-30

Genesis 47:29-30Bury me not, I pray thee, in EgyptLessons -1.Approaching death should make men put their houses in order, and prepare for the grave. 2. The best of sons are best trusted with the interring of parents. 3. Favour, benevolence, and fidelity dying parents may beg of surviving children. 4. Parents may bind children not to bury them in places inconvenient (Genesis 47:29). 5. The law of nature may appoint burial with fathers, much more the law of faith. 6. The faith of the Patriarchs... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 47:30

Gen 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. Ver. 30. Bury me in their burying place. ] That he might keep possession, at least by his dead body, of the Promised Land. There they would be buried, not pompously, but reverently, that they might rise again with Christ. Some of the fathers think that these patriarchs were those that rose corporally with him. Mat 27:53 read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 47:30

Genesis 23:19, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 49:29-Jonah :, Genesis 50:5-2 Chronicles :, Genesis 50:25, 2 Samuel 19:37, 1 Kings 13:22, Nehemiah 2:3, Nehemiah 2:5 Reciprocal: Genesis 49:31 - General read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:30

30. I will lie with my fathers Egypt will do to live in for a time, but Jacob would have his dust repose with that of Abraham and Isaac in the land of Canaan . Compare the touching words of Genesis 49:29-32. Such a dying request none would refuse . read more

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