創世記 50:1-4 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:1-6

Joseph is here paying his last respects to his deceased father. 1. With tears and kisses, and all the tender expressions of a filial affection, he takes leave of the deserted body, Gen. 50:1. Though Jacob was old and decrepit, and must needs die in the course of nature?though he was poor comparatively, and a constant charge to his son Joseph, yet such an affection he had for a loving father, and so sensible was he of the loss of a prudent, pious, praying father, that he could not part with him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:1

And Joseph fell upon his father's face ,.... Laid his own face to the cold face and pale cheeks of his dead father, out of his tender affection for him, and grief at parting with him; this shows that Joseph had been present from the time his father sent for him, and all the while he had been blessing the tribes, and giving orders about his funeral: and wept upon him ; which to do for and over the dead is neither unlawful nor unbecoming, provided it is not carried to excess, as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:2

And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father ,.... Which he did, not merely because it was the custom of the Egyptians, but because it was necessary, his father's corpse being to be carried into Canaan to be interred there, which would require time; and therefore it was proper to make use of some means for the preservation of it, and these men were expert in this business, which was a branch of the medicinal art, as Pliny F24 Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 37. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:3

Forty days were fulfilled for him ,.... Were spent in embalming him: for so are fulfilled the days of those that are embalmed ; so long the body lay in the pickle, in ointment of cedar, myrrh and cinnamon, and other things, that it might soak and penetrate thoroughly into it: and so Diodorus Siculus F4 lBibliothec. l. 1. p. 82. says, that having laid more than thirty days in such a state, it was delivered to the kindred of the deceased: and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:4

And when the days of his mourning were past ,.... The forty days before mentioned, in which both the Egyptians and Jacob's family mourned for him. An Arabic writer F7 Elmacinus, p. 43. apud Hottinger. Smegma, c. 8. p. 380. says, the Egyptians mourned for Jacob forty days, which was the time of embalming; but the text is express for sventy days: Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh ; to the court of Pharaoh, the principal men there; so the Targum of Jonathan and the Septuagint... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:1

Verse 1 1.And Joseph fell upon his father’s face. In this chapter, what happened after the death of Jacob, is briefly related. Moses, however, states that Jacob’s death was honored with a double mourning — natural (so to speak) and ceremonial. That Joseph falls upon his father’s face and sheds tears, flows from true and pure affection; that the Egyptians mourn for him seventy days, since it is done for the sake of honor, and in compliance with custom, is more from ostentation and vain pomp,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:1-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:4

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

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:1

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