Chapter 50

1
fell Gen 46:4; Deut 6:7-8; Eph 6:4

wept Gen 23:2; 2Kgs 13:14; Mark 5:38-39; John 11:35-38; Acts 8:2; 1Thess 4:13


2
the physicians The Hebrew ropheim, from rapha, to heal, is literally the healers, those whose business it was to heal, or restore the body from sickness, by administering proper medicines; and when death took place, to heal or preserve it from decomposition by embalming. The word chanat, to embalm, is also used in Arabic to express the reddening of leather; somewhat analogous to our tanning; which is probably the grand principal in embalming.

embalmed Gen 50:26; 2Chr 16:14; Matt 26:12; Mark 14:8, Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 12:7, John 19:39-40


3
forty days We learn from the Greek historians, that the time of mourning was while the body remained with the embalmers, which Herodotus says was seventy days. During this time the body lay in nitre, the use of which was to dry up all its superfluous and noxious moisture, and when, in the space of 30 days, this was sufficiently effected, the remaining forty, the time mentioned by Diodorus, were employed in anointing it with gums and spices to preserve it, which was properly the embalming. This sufficiently explains the phraseology of the text.

mourned Heb. wept

threescore Num 20:29; Deut 21:13, Deut 34:8


4
the days Gen 50:10

Joseph Esth 4:2

found grace Gen 18:3


5
made me Gen 47:29-31

I die Gen 50:24, Gen 48:21, Gen 49:29-30; Deut 4:22; 1Sam 14:43

I have 2Chr 16:14; Isa 22:16; Matt 27:60

bury me Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Ps 79:3; Eccl 6:3, Eccl 12:5, Eccl 12:7

let me go Matt 8:21-22; Luke 9:59-60


6
as he made Gen 48:21


7
and with him Gen 14:16


8
only their Exod 10:8-9, Exod 10:26; Num 32:24-27


9
chariots Gen 41:43, Gen 46:29; Exod 14:7, Exod 14:17, Exod 14:28; 2Kgs 18:24; Song 1:9; Acts 8:2


10
the threshingfloor This place was situated, according to Jerome, between the Jordan and the city of Jericho, two miles from the former, and three from the latter, where Bethagla was afterwards built. Procopius of Gaza states the same. As aataad signifies thorns, the place might have been remarkable for their production; though all the versions except the Arabic consider it as a proper name. As Moses wrote or revised his history on the east side of Jordan, the term beyond Jordan, in his five books, means westward of Jordan; but in other parts of Scripture it generally means eastward.

beyond Gen 50:11; Deut 1:1

seven days Gen 50:4; Num 19:11; Deut 34:8; 1Sam 31:13; 2Sam 1:17; Job 2:13; Acts 8:2


11
the Canaanites Gen 10:15-19, Gen 13:7, Gen 24:6, Gen 34:30

Abelmizraim i.e. The mourning of the Egyptians, 1Sam 6:18

beyond Jordan Gen 50:10; Deut 3:25, Deut 3:27, Deut 11:30


12
Gen 47:29-31, Gen 49:29-32; Exod 20:12; Acts 7:16; Eph 6:1


13
the cave Gen 23:16-18, Gen 25:9, Gen 35:27, Gen 35:29, Gen 49:29-31; 2Kgs 21:18


15
their father Gen 27:41-42

Joseph Gen 42:17; Lev 26:36; Job 15:21-22; Ps 14:5, Ps 53:5; Prov 28:1; Rom 2:15


16
sent Heb. charged, Prov 29:25


17
Forgive Matt 6:12, Matt 6:14-15, Matt 18:35; Luke 17:3-4; Eph 4:32; Col 3:12-13

they did Gen 50:20; Job 33:27-28; Ps 21:11; Prov 28:13; Jas 5:16

servants Gen 31:42, Gen 49:25; Matt 10:42, Matt 25:40; Mark 10:41; Gal 6:10, Gal 6:16; Phlm 1:8-20

wept Gen 42:21-24, Gen 45:4-5, Gen 45:8


18
fell Gen 27:29, Gen 37:7-11, Gen 42:6, Gen 44:14, Gen 45:3


19
fear not Gen 45:5; Matt 14:27; Luke 24:37-38

for am I It belongs to God to execute vengeance, and Joseph did not intend to usurp his prerogative. Thus he instructed his brethren not to fear him, but to fear God; to humble themselves before God, and to seek his forgiveness. Gen 30:2; Deut 32:35; 2Kgs 5:7; Job 34:19-29; Rom 12:19; Heb 10:30


20
ye thought Gen 37:4, Gen 37:18-20; Ps 56:5

God meant Gen 45:5-8; Ps 76:10, Ps 105:16-17, Ps 119:71; Isa 10:7; Acts 2:23, Acts 3:13-15, Acts 3:26; Rom 8:28


21
I will nourish Gen 45:10-11, Gen 47:12; Matt 5:44, Matt 6:14; Rom 12:20-21; 1Thess 5:15; 1Pet 3:9

kindly unto them Heb. to their hearts, Gen 34:3; Isa 40:2 *marg.


22
an hundred Joseph's life was the shortest of all the patriarchs; for which Bp. Patrick gives this reason, he was the son of his father's old age. Gen 50:22


23
the children Gen 48:19, Gen 49:12; Num 32:33, Num 32:39; Josh 17:1; Job 42:16; Ps 128:6

brought up Heb. born

Joseph's Gen 30:3


24
I die Gen 50:5, Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Eccl 12:5, Eccl 12:7; Rom 5:12; Heb 9:27

visit you Gen 21:1; Exod 4:31

you out Gen 15:14-16, Gen 26:3, Gen 35:12, Gen 46:4, Gen 48:21; Exod 3:16-17

sware Gen 12:7, Gen 13:15, Gen 13:17, Gen 15:7, Gen 15:18, Gen 17:8, Gen 26:3, Gen 28:13, Gen 35:12, Gen 46:4; Exod 33:1; Num 32:11; Deut 1:8, Deut 6:10


25
took an Gen 50:5, Gen 47:29-31

and ye Exod 13:19; Josh 24:32; Acts 7:16; Heb 11:22


26
being an hundred and ten years old Ben meah weaiser shanim; "the son of an hundred and ten years;" the period he lived being personified. Gen 50:22, Gen 47:9, Gen 47:28; Josh 24:29

they embalmed Gen 50:2-3


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