Genesis 47:1-31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:27-31

Genesis 47:27 to Genesis 48:22 . Jacob Extracts an Oath that Joseph will Bury him in Canaan, and Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh. Genesis 47:22 f., Genesis 48:3-Joshua : belong to P. To J Genesis 47:29-Obadiah : may be assigned. Genesis 48:1 f., Genesis 48:8-Song of Solomon : was formerly attributed to E, recent critics assign it to JE. The analysis is somewhat as follows: E, Genesis 48:1-Exodus : a, Genesis 48:8-1 Samuel : a, Genesis 48:10 b, Genesis 48:11 f., Genesis 48:15 f., Genesis 48:20... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:1

Either to abide there, or to remove thence to any other place which thou shalt appoint for them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:2

Some of his brethren, or part, as this Hebrew word is used, Daniel 1:2; or the extremity, or end, or tail of them, i.e. the meanest of them for person and presence, as the word is taken 1 Kings 12:31, lest if he, had presented the goodliest of them, Pharaoh might have required their attendance upon him, either at court or camp. And for the same reason for which he did industriously represent them to Pharaoh as contemptible in their employment, he might also present those to him who were so in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:3

This employment is not pretended nor taken up by us in design, or in contempt of thee or thy people, but was handed to us by our fathers, and hath been our business to this day. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:4

To sojourn in the land are we come; not to defraud thy people of their lands and habitations, but only to be here for a season, as strangers and sojourners, till we can conveniently return to our own land. Canaan being a higher ground than Egypt, and watered in a manner only by rain from heaven, must needs sooner and sorer feel the effects of a drought and scarcity than Egypt, which had relief from Nilus in that kind. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is before thee, to view it, and take thy choice where thou pleasest, it is in thy power. See Genesis 13:9. Any man of activity, or, of strength, or vigour of body and mind, fit for the employment. By which expression it seems probable that those five presented to Pharaoh were of the meanest sort of them. See Poole on "Genesis 47:2". read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:7

Not in an authoritative way, as the greater blesseth the less, but in a general manner, i.e. he saluted him, thanked him for all his favours to him and his, and prayed to God to bless and recompense him for it. Thus blessing is put for saluting, 1 Samuel 13:10; 2 Kings 4:29; for praying, Numbers 6:23,Numbers 6:24; for thanksgiving, Matthew 26:26, compare with Luke 22:19. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:9

My pilgrimage, i.e. my unstable or unsettled life, in which I have been flitting from place to place. See Genesis 17:8; Psalms 119:19; Hebrews 11:9,Hebrews 11:13. And though I seem old in comparison of thy people, yet I fall much short of my progenitors, Isaac, and Abraham, and Terah. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:11

The land of Rameses; a part of the land of Goshen, possibly that part where afterwards the city Rameses was built by the Israelites, Exodus 1:11; Exodus 12:37, whence it is so called here by anticipation; for the Israelites were not now numerous enough to possess the whole land of Goshen, which was given to them, but contented themselves with a part of it, leaving the rest to the management of the Egyptians; and therefore when they increased greatly, they were forced to spread their habitations... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:12

Or, according to the mouth of the family; mouth being put for their will or desire, as it is Genesis 24:57; Isaiah 30:2, as much as every one desired, without any restraint; or, according to the manner of a little child, he put their meat into their very months; it was brought to them without any more care or pains of theirs than an infant takes for its food. read more

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