Genesis 47:8-11 ASV

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:10

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 47:1-31

- Jacob in Goshen11. רעמסס ra‛mesês, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.”31. מטה mı̂ṭṭāh, “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh “staff.”Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The administration of Joseph during the remaining years of the famine is then recorded. For the whole of this period his father and brothers are subject to him, as their political superior, according to the reading of his early dreams. We then approach to the death-bed of Jacob, and hear him binding Joseph by an oath to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:8

Genesis 47:8. How old art thou? A question usually put to old men, for it is natural to us to admire old age, and to reverence it. Jacob’s countenance, no doubt, showed him to be old, for he had been a man of labour and sorrow. In Egypt people were not so long-lived as in Canaan, and therefore Pharaoh looks upon Jacob with wonder. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:9

Genesis 47:9. Observe, 1st, Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage, looking upon himself as a stranger in this world, and a traveller toward another. He reckoned himself not only a pilgrim now he was in Egypt, a strange country in which he never was before, but his life, even in the land of his nativity, was a pilgrimage. 2d, He reckoned his life by days; for even so it is soon reckoned; and we are not sure of the continuance of it for a day to an end, but may be turned out of this... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 47:1-12

The migration to Egypt (46:1-47:12)As they were leaving Canaan for Egypt, Jacob and his family stopped to worship God at Beersheba, the last town in Canaan. Here God told Jacob that, though he would die in Egypt, his descendants would one day return and possess the land (46:1-4). Jacob’s family, at the time of the move to Egypt, numbered about seventy people (5-27).Knowing that Egyptians did not like to live alongside people who kept sheep or cattle, Joseph told his brothers to tell Pharaoh... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 47:11-27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 47:1-31

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 47:1-12

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