Genesis 47:21-26 NIV1984

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:13-26

Genesis 47:13-Ezekiel : . Joseph Takes Advantage of the Famine to Secure for the Crown the Money, the Cattle, and the Lands of the Egyptians.— If this belongs to one of the main documents, J is the most probable. But it may be an independent piece. It is an æ tiological story (p. 134). The system of land tenure in Egypt must have struck the Hebrews as strange; they accounted for it in this way. The system is not attested in the inscriptions, but there is confirmatory evidence, and it probably... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:21

Under the cities are here comprehended the villages and lands belonging to the territory and government of each city; for the seed which he gave them was not to be sown in cities, but in the country: but the cities only are here mentioned, because they were sent thither first, either for the conveniency of nourishing them during this famine out of the public storehouses which were there; or that they might all profess their subjection to the governments of the several cities, which was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:22

The priests: under this name he understands chiefly those who administered the worship of the gods or idols of Egypt, and withal those who applied themselves to the study of the arts and virtues, called their wise men and magicians; though some understand it of the princes (as that word sometimes signifies) or officers of Pharaoh, who were nourished out of the king’s treasures. And possibly the same Hebrew word may here comprehend both, viz. the ministers of the king, and of their idols too,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:23

For this was the last year of the famine, as was noted before. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:24

Whereas he might have reserved four parts to Pharaoh, and have allowed them only the fifth. Herein he showed both his humanity and kindness, in mitigating that hard bargain which themselves had made, and were necessitated to make, and his prudence in composing, sweetening, and winning the hearts of the people to the king, and making them pay their tribute for the future with more cheerfulness. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:25

Without thy care and providence we had all been dead men; and therefore if thou hadst kept us to the first bargain, thou hadst done us more kindness than wrong, much more when thou hast used us with so much equity and clemency. Be thou our friend with Pharaoh in this and upon all other occasions. We will be Pharaoh’s servants, to manage his land for him upon the terms which thou hast proposed. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:26

That Pharaoh should have the fifth part; that the propriety of the land should be Pharaoh’s; and that in token thereof the people should pay the fifth part of the products of it to Pharaoh. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 47:13-26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 47:21. He removed them to cities.] Heb.—According to the cities. “Thus he distributed the population of the land in and around the cities according to the cities in which the grain was stored, so as to produce the easiest distribution of the supplies among them.” (Jacobus.)—Genesis 47:22. Only the land of the priests bought he not.] “The Egyptian priesthood was already placed by Pharaoh upon an independent and separate basis. Wilkinson shows from the monuments that only... 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

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:13-26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:26

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 47:13-26

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 47:1-31

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

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