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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 50:1-26

Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. The study of his life reveals little to his own credit, but much to the strength of the grace of God. Nevertheless the activity of that principle of faith which is ever the basis of divine operation was revealed throughout. Well for us if from the story we learn to avoid his mistakes. Jacob being... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:14-17

The Brothers Fear For Their Lives on the Death of Jacob (50:14-21). The prime purpose of this section is not so much to deal with the brothers’ fears with respect to Joseph as to stress that all that has happened has happened in the sovereign purpose of God. He it was who was behind all that happened and Whose sovereign control brought good out of evil. Genesis 50:14-17 ‘And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 50:14-21

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 50:15. Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering is—If Joseph should now punish us, and requite all the evil that we have done to him—The sentence breaks off unfinished, requiring some such filling up as, what then? or, that would be our ruin.Genesis 50:16. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph.] From Goshen to Memphis.—MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 50:14-21JOSEPH’S LAST... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 50:15-17

DISCOURSE: 62JOSEPH’S BRETHREN FULFILLING THE PROPHECY RESPECTING THEMGenesis 50:15-17. And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, So shall ye say unto Joseph; Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

Chapter 50And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are the days which they take to embalm them: and the Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days ( Genesis 50:1-3 ).Now embalming processes took forty days and the period of mourning in Egypt for a great person was seventy days. And so it fulfilled the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 50:1-26

Genesis 50:2. The physicians embalmed Israel. The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by physicians, and in the most curious manner. They took out the brain, the viscera, and laid open the principal muscles of the limbs, inlaid the whole with this paste, and then so bandaged the corpse, that it would be durable as the mausoleum where it reposed. Genesis 50:3. The Egyptians mourned. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 50:15-19

Genesis 50:15-19ForgiveThe message of his brethren to Joseph:The death of great characters being often followed by great changes; conscious guilt being always alive to fear; and the chasm which succeeds a funeral, inviting a flood of foreboding apprehensions, they find out a new source of trouble.But how can they disclose their suspicions? To have done it personally would have been too much for either him or them to bear, let him take it as he might. So they “sent messengers unto him,” to sound... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:15

Gen 50:15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. Ver. 15. Joseph will peradventure hate us. ] An ill conscience, we are sure, still haunts them as a hell-hag, and fills them with unquestionable conviction and horror. Better be langold [tied] to a lion than to an unquiet conscience. See Trapp on " Gen 4:14 " See Trapp on " Gen 42:21 " Such take no more rest than... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 50:15

their father: Genesis 27:41, Genesis 27:42 Joseph: Genesis 42:17, Leviticus 26:36, Job 15:21, Job 15:22, Psalms 14:5, Psalms 53:5, Proverbs 28:1, Romans 2:15 Reciprocal: Genesis 37:9 - the sun 1 Kings 17:18 - art thou come Proverbs 19:11 - and Ecclesiastes 7:2 - better Matthew 5:23 - rememberest Acts 7:9 - sold read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 50:15

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.Joseph will peradventure hate us — While their father lived, they thought themselves safe under his shadow; but now he was dead, they feared the worst. A guilty conscience exposeth men to continual frights; those that would be fearless must keep themselves guiltless. read more

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