Genesis 50

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:4-5

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, —that Joseph did not address himself directly to Pharaoh, but through the members of the royal household, was not owing to the circumstance that, being arrayed in mourning apparel, he could not come before the king (Rosenmüller), since it is not certain that this Persian custom ( Esther 4:2 ) prevailed in Egypt, but... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:6

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Pharaoh's answer would, of course, be conveyed through the courtiers. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:7-9

And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh ( i.e. the chief officers of the royal palace, as the next clause explains), the elders of his house ( i.e. of Pharaoh's house), and all the elders of the land of Egypt ( i.e. the nobles and State officials), and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:10

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad. The threshing-floor, or goren , was a large open circular area which was used for trampling out the corn by means of oxen, and was exceedingly convenient for the accommodation of a large body of people such as accompanied Joseph. The goren at which the funeral party halted was named Atad ( i.e. Buckthorn), either from the name of the owner, or from the quantity of buck-thorn which grew in the neighborhood. Which is beyond Jordan— literally,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:11

And when (literally, and ) the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they (literally, and they ) said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, — i.e. the meadow ( אָבֵל ) of the Egyptians, with a play upon the word ( אֵבֶל ) mourning (Keil, Kurtz, Gerlach, Rosenmüller, &c.;), if indeed the word has not been punctuated wrongly— אָבֵל instead of אֵבֶל (Kalisch),... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:12-13

And his sons —the Egyptians halting at Goren Atad (Keil, Havernick, Kalisch, Murphy, etc.); but this does not appear from the narrative— did unto him according as he commanded them (the explanation of what they did being given in the next clause): for his sons carried him —not simply from Goren Atad, but from Egypt, so that this verse does not imply anything about the site of the Buckthorn threshing-floor ( vide supra, Genesis 50:11 )— into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:14

And Joseph returnee into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:15

And when (literally and ) Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they (literally, and they) said, Joseph will peradventure hate us,— literally, If Joseph hated us, or pursued us hostilely ( sc . what would become of us?), לוּ with the imperfect or future setting forth a possible but undesirable contingency— and will certainly requite us (literally, if returning he caused to return upon us ) all the evil which we did unto him. "What then?" is the natural... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:15-26

The last of the house of Jacob. I. JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN ( Genesis 50:15-18 ). 1. The unworthy suspicion . After Jacob's death, Joseph's brethren began to fear lest he should seek to revenge himself on account of his early injuries. It was perhaps natural that such an apprehension should arise within their breasts, considering the enormity of the wickedness of which they had been guilty; but remembering all the tokens of Joseph's love which already they had received, it... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:16-17

And (under these erroneous though not unnatural apprehensions) they sent a messenger unto Joseph ,—literally, they charged Joseph, i.e. they deputed one of their number (possibly Benjamin) to carry their desires to 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 (nothing is more inherently probable than that the good man on his death-bed did... read more

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