Genesis 50:5-6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:1-13

The Burial of Jacob In Canaan (50:1-13). Genesis 50:1-3 ‘And Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were taken for it, for those are the number of days taken for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.’ Joseph is heartbroken at the death of his father. Then he takes charge of preparation of the body and calls for his... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 50:1-13

Genesis 49:28 b – Genesis 50:13 . Death and Burial of Jacob. Genesis 49:28 b – Genesis 49:33 , Genesis 50:12 f. are in the main from P; Genesis 50:1-1 Kings : in the main from J. The dying charge requires no comment. The body is embalmed simply because burial could not be immediate; the motive for the Egyptian practice was that the body might be preserved for the ka or double to reanimate it. Joseph does not make his request for leave of absence direct to Pharaoh, possibly because as a... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 50:5

Here is a triple obligation upon Joseph: 1. His duty to fulfil the will of the dead. 2. The obedience which he owed to his father’s command. 3. The the of a solemn oath: all which had weight even with the heathens, and were so many arguments to Pharaoh and his courtiers. In my grave which I have digged for me, according to the manner of those ancient and succeeding times. See 2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60. In that large cave which Abraham bought for a burying-place for his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 50:6

The heathens by the light of nature discovered the sacredness of an oath, and the wickedness of perjury. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 50:1-13

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 50:2. The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.—Genesis 50:3. Mourned for him three score and ten days.] The seventy days of mourning included the forty required for embalming.—Genesis 50:5. My grave which I have digged for me.] “This term is applied to the preparation of a tomb (2 Chronicles 16:14). He thus speaks of having himself done what had been done by Abraham (Genesis 24:0); though it is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 50:1-26

Chapter 50And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are the days which they take to embalm them: and the Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days ( Genesis 50:1-3 ).Now embalming processes took forty days and the period of mourning in Egypt for a great person was seventy days. And so it fulfilled the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 50:1-26

Genesis 50:2. The physicians embalmed Israel. The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by physicians, and in the most curious manner. They took out the brain, the viscera, and laid open the principal muscles of the limbs, inlaid the whole with this paste, and then so bandaged the corpse, that it would be durable as the mausoleum where it reposed. Genesis 50:3. The Egyptians mourned. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 50:1-13

Genesis 50:1-13Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his fatherThe honour paid to the departed Jacob:I.PRIVATE. 1. The tears of his family. 2. The respect paid to last wishes. II. PUBLIC. (T. H. Leale.)Ceremonies after death:The order of the ceremonies alluded to, and on the whole agreeing with classical and monumental records, was as follows: 1. When the extinction of the vital breath could no longer be doubted, the relatives began a preliminary mourning, perhaps observed... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:5

Gen 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. Ver. 5. In my grave which I have digged for me. ] A usual thing of old. 2Ch 16:14 Mat 27:60 See Trapp on " Gen 23:9 " Quintillus Plautianus, an ancient senator of Rome, in the days of Severus the Emperor, being wrongfully accused and condemned to die, desired before... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 50:6

Gen 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Ver. 6. As he made thee swear. ] Oaths must be religiously kept, even those that are private, betwixt friend and friend. For, although whatsoever is more than yea and nay, in our ordinary communication, is evil, Mat 5:37 yet a private oath, as betwixt Boaz and Ruth, so it be sparingly and warily used, is not unlawful. For in serious and weighty affairs, if it be lawful in private to admit God as a judge,... read more

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