Genesis 50

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel ,.... Not of his brethren only, but of their posterity, as many of them as were now grown up, that so it might be communicated from one to another, and become well known to that generation which should depart out of Egypt: saying, God will surely visit you ; which he repeats for the certainty of it, and that it might be observed: and ye shall carry up my bones from hence ; when they should go from thence to Canaan's land; he did not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old ,.... The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor F24 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425. , from Demetrius an Heathen. The Jewish writers F25 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 4. 1. & T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 13. 2. say, that he died the first of the twelve patriarchs, though he was the youngest of them; he died, according to Bishop Usher F26 Annalea Vet. Test. A. M. 2369. , in the year of the world 2369, and before... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50

Joseph bewails the death of his father, and commands the physicians to embalm him, Genesis 50:1 , Genesis 50:2 . The Egyptians mourn for him seventy days, Genesis 50:3 . Joseph begs permission from Pharaoh to accompany his father's corpse to Canaan, Genesis 50:4 , Genesis 50:5 . Pharaoh consents, Genesis 50:6 . Pharaoh's domestics and elders, the elders of Egypt, Joseph and his brethren, with chariots, horsemen, etc., form the funeral procession, Genesis 50:7-9 . They come to the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:1

Joseph fell upon his father's face - Though this act appears to be suspended by the unnatural division of this verse from the preceding chapter, yet we may rest assured it was the immediate consequence of Jacob's death. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:2

The physicians - רפאים ropheim , the healers, those whose business it was to heal or restore the body from sickness by the administration of proper medicines; and when death took place, to heal or preserve it from dissolution by embalming, and thus give it a sort of immortality or everlasting duration. The original word חנט chanat , which we translate to embalm, has undoubtedly the same meaning with the Arabic hanata , which also signifies to embalm, or to preserve from... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:3

Forty days - The body it appears required this number of days to complete the process of embalming; afterwards it lay in natron thirty days more, making in the whole seventy days, according to the preceding accounts, during which the mourning was continued. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:4

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh - But why did not Joseph apply himself? Because he was now in his mourning habits, and in such none must appear in the presence of the eastern monarchs. See Esther 4:2 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:7

The elders of his house - Persons who, by reason of their age, had acquired much experience; and who on this account were deemed the best qualified to conduct the affairs of the king's household. Similar to these were the Eldermen, or Aldermen, among our Saxon ancestors, who were senators and peers of the realm. The funeral procession of Jacob must have been truly grand. Joseph, his brethren and their descendants, the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders - all the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:10

The threshing-floor of Atad - As אטד atad signifies a bramble or thorn, it has been understood by the Arabic, not as a man's name, but as the name of a place; but all the other versions and the Targums consider it as the name of a man. Threshing-floors were always in a field, in the open air; and Atad was probably what we would call a great farmer or chief of some clan or tribe in that place. Jerome supposed the place to have been about two leagues from Jericho; but we have no certain... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:12

And his sons did unto him - This and the thirteenth verse have been supposed by Mr. Locke and others to belong to the conclusion of the preceding chapter, in which connection they certainly read more consistently than they do here. read more

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