Genesis 50

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50

Chapter 50 Here is, I. The preparation for Jacob's funeral, Gen. 50:1-6. II. The funeral itself, Gen. 50:7-14. III. The settling of a good understanding between Joseph and his brethren after the death of Jacob, Gen. 50:15-21. IV. The age and death of Joseph, Gen. 50:22-26. Thus the book of Genesis, which began with the origin of light and life, ends with nothing but death and darkness; so sad a change has sin made. read more

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:7-14

We have here an account of Jacob's funeral. Of the funerals of the kings of Judah, usually, no more is said than this, They were buried with their fathers in the city of David: but the funeral of the patriarch Jacob is more largely and fully described, to show how much better God was to him than he expected (he had spoken more than once of dying for grief, and going to the grave bereaved of his children, but, behold, he dies in honour, and is followed to the grave by all his children), and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:15-21

We have here the settling of a good correspondence between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country; yet the keeping up of a good understanding, and a good affection, between them, would be both his honour and their interest. Note, When Providence has removed the parents by death, the best methods ought to be taken, not only for the preventing of quarrels among the children (which often... read more

Matthew Henry

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

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 50 This chapter contains a short account of what happened from the death of Jacob to the death of Joseph, and is chiefly concerned with the funeral of Jacob; it first gives an account how Joseph was affected with his father's death, of his orders to the physicians to embalm him, and of the time of their embalming him, and of the Egyptians mourning for him, Genesis 50:1 , next of his request to Pharaoh to give him leave to go and bury his father in Canaan, and his... 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

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