Genesis 47

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:4

They said moreover (literally, and they said ) unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come ;—an unconscious fulfillment of an ancient prophecy ( Genesis 15:13 )— for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks (it was solely the extreme drought that had caused them for a season to vacate their own land); for the famine is sore (literally, heavy ) in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell (literally, and now might thy servants... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:5-6

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: the land of Egypt is before thee (cf. Genesis 20:15 ); in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell. Wilkinson thinks it possible that Jacob's sons "may have asked and obtained a grant of land from the Egyptian monarch on condition of certain services being performed by themselves and their descendants". In the land of Goshen let them dwell. Robinson ( Genesis 1:1-31 :78, 79)... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:7

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. It has been thought that Jacob's presentation to the Egyptian king was deferred till after the monarch's interview with his sons because of the public and political character of that interview, relating as it did to the occupation of the land, while Jacob's introduction to the sovereign was of a purely personal and private description. And Jacob —in reply probably to a request from Pharaoh (Tayler Lewis), but more likely ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:8-9

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ?—literally, How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage (literally, of my sojournings, wanderings to and fro without any settled condition) are an hundred and thirty years . Since Joseph was now thirty-seven years of age ( Genesis 45:6 ), it is apparent that he was born in his father's ninety-first year; and since this event took place in the fourteenth year of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:9

The discipline of life. Few and evil, yet 130 years; and how many blessings temporal and spiritual had been received during their course. We need not suppose him unthankful. But blessings do not of themselves make a man happy. Some worm may be at the root. And in Jacob's case early faults cast a shadow over his whole life. The remembrance of early deceit, his natural shrinking from danger, his family cares, his mourning for Rachel ( Genesis 48:7 ) and for Joseph, gave a tinge of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:10

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh (as he had done on entering the royal presence),— HOMILETICS read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren ( i.e. gave them a settlement, the import of which the next clause explains), and gave them a possession ( i.e. allowed them to acquire property) in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses ,—either that district of Goshen in which Jacob and his family first settled (Michaelis, Rosenmüller), or, what seems more probable, the land of Goshen itself ( LXX ; Keil, Hengstenberg, Kalisch, et alii ) , being so... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11-12

The settlement of the children of Israel in Goshen. I. A CONSUMMATION . Distinctly the act of Joseph, under the command of Pharaoh. 1. The fruit of righteousness reaped. 2. The fulfillment of God's word. II. A NEW LIFE BASED UPON THE TESTIMONY OF DIVINE GRACE . The weak things have been proved mighty, the elect of God has been exalted. The " best of the land " is for the seed of the righteous: "The meek shall inherit the earth." Goshen the type of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11-27

Joseph's policy in Egypt. I. TOWARDS THE ISRAELITES . 1. He gave them a settlement in Goshen . Though in one sense the land of Goshen was Pharaoh's grant, it is apparent from the story that they owed it chiefly to the wise and prudent management of Joseph that they found themselves located in the fattest corner of the land. In thus providing for them Joseph had without doubt an eye to their enrichment, to their separation as a people from the Egyptian inhabitants of the land,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished — ἐσιτομέτρει ( LXX .), i.e. gave them their measure of corn— his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families— literally, to, or according to, the mouth of the little ones, meaning either in proportion to the size of their families ( LXX ; Keil, Kalisch, Murphy), or with all the tenderness with which a parent provides for his offspring (Murphy), or the whole body of them, from the greatest even to the... read more

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