Genesis 47:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:1-17

Jacob and His Family Tribe Arrive and Settle in Egypt (Genesis 46:28 to Genesis 47:12 ) Genesis 46:28 ‘And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.’ Jacob sent Judah ahead to ask Joseph to meet him to show them where they should settle in Goshen. Judah is now clearly seen as the leader of the brothers. The LXX here has ‘to appear before him’ which requires two further letters in the Hebrew, but it also gives the name of a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:1-12

Genesis 46:1 to Genesis 47:12 . Jacob and his Descendants Go down into Egypt and Settle in Goshen.— The list in Genesis 46:8-Daniel : with the introductory verses Genesis 46:6 f. is from P, as are Genesis 47:5-Joshua : a, Genesis 46:7-1 Kings :. The rest is JE. To E belong Genesis 46:1-Deuteronomy : (in the main) and perhaps Genesis 47:12, the rest to J. Jacob visits the sanctuary at Beersheba, where he has a vision dispelling the fears which he naturally feels at leaving his native land and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:2

Some of his brethren, or part, as this Hebrew word is used, Daniel 1:2; or the extremity, or end, or tail of them, i.e. the meanest of them for person and presence, as the word is taken 1 Kings 12:31, lest if he, had presented the goodliest of them, Pharaoh might have required their attendance upon him, either at court or camp. And for the same reason for which he did industriously represent them to Pharaoh as contemptible in their employment, he might also present those to him who were so in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 47:1-12

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 47:2. Five men.] The number five was a favourite number with the Egyptians. (Genesis 41:34; Genesis 42:34; Genesis 45:22; Genesis 47:2).—Genesis 47:7. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.] This word is sometimes used to denote an ordinary salutation. But the salutations used among the pious Hebrews were real prayers addressed to God for blessings on behalf of the person saluted.—Genesis 47:11. The land of Rameses.] The land of Rameses is mentioned here only. The city is mentioned in... 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 47:2

Gen 47:2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. Ver. 2. Even five men. ] R. Solomon telleth us (but who told him?) which five they were; sc., Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, and Benjamin. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 47:2

presented: Acts 7:13, 2 Corinthians 4:14, Colossians 1:28, Jude 1:24 Reciprocal: Genesis 46:33 - What is read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:1-3

INTRODUCTION TO PHARAOH, AND SETTLEMENT IN EGYPT, Genesis 47:1-12. 1-3. They said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds “The Egyptian monuments abundantly illustrate the hatred and contempt which the ruling castes felt towards the shepherds . In those great pictures of Egyptian life painted on the walls of the Theban tombs in the time of the Pharaohs, the shepherds are caricatured in many ways, being represented by figures lank, emaciated, distorted, and sometimes ghostly in form and... read more