Genesis 50:24-26 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:22-26

Here is, I. The prolonging of Joseph's life in Egypt: he lived to be a hundred and ten years old, Gen. 50:22. Having honoured his father, his days were long in the land which, for the present, God had given him; and it was a great mercy to his relations that God continued him so long, a support and comfort to them. II. The building up of Joseph's family: he lived to see his great-grand-children by both his sons (Gen. 50:23), and probably he saw his two sons solemnly owned as heads of distinct... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:24

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die ,.... Some time before his death he called them together, and observed to them, that he expected to die in a little time, as all must: and God will surely visit you ; not in a way of wrath and vindictive justice, as he sometimes does, but in a way of love, grace, and mercy: and bring you out of this land ; the land of Egypt, in which they then dwelt: unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob ; meaning the land of... read more

John Gill

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 50:24

Joseph said - I die - That is, I am dying; and God will surely visit you - he will yet again give you, in the time when it shall be essentially necessary, the most signal proof of his unbounded love towards the seed of Jacob. And bring you out of this land - Though ye have here every thing that can render life comfortable, yet this is not the typical land, the land given by covenant, the land which represents the rest that remains for the people of God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

Ye shall carry up my bones - That I may finally rest with my ancestors in the land which God gave to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and which is a pledge as it is a type of the kingdom of Heaven. Thus says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 11:22 ; : "By Faith Joseph, when he died, ( τελευτων , when dying), made mention of the departure ( εξοδου , of the Exodus) of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. From this it is evident that Joseph... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:26

Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old - שנים ועשר מאה בן ben meah vaeser shanim ; literally, the son of a hundred and ten years. Here the period of time he lived is personified, all the years of which it was composed being represented as a nurse or father, feeding, nourishing, and supporting him to the end. This figure, which is termed by rhetoricians prosopopaeia , is very frequent in Scripture; and by this virtues, vices, forms, attributes, and qualities, with every part of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:24

Verse 24 24.And Joseph said unto his brethren. It is uncertain whether Joseph died the first or the last of the brethren, or whether a part of them survived him. Here indeed Moses includes, under the name of brethren, not only those who were really so, but other relations. I think, however, that certain of the chiefs of each family were called at his command, from whom the whole of the people might receive information: and although it is probable that the other patriarchs also gave the same... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

Verse 25 25.God will surely visit you. By these words he intimates that they would be buried as in oblivion, so long as they remained in Egypt: and truly that exile was as if God had turned his back on them for a season. Nevertheless, Joseph does not cease to fix the eyes of his mind on God; as it is written in the Prophet, “I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob.” (Isaiah 8:17.) This passage also clearly teaches what was the design of this anxious choice of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

Retrospect and prospect. The fellowship of Egypt with the children of Israel in the burial of Jacob is full of significance. " A very great company went with them." "Abel-Mizraim" the Canaanites called it, "a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." It seemed to them altogether an Egyptian funeral. Yet we know that it was not. The work of God's grace will transform the world that it shall not be recognized. The funeral itself said, Egypt is not our home. It pointed with prophetic... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:22-26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:24

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

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