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Genesis 50
Here, is,
I. The preparation for Jacob's funeral, ver. 1-6.
II. The funeral itself, ver. 7-14.
III. The settling of a good understanding between Joseph and his
brethren, after the death of Jacob, ver. 15-21.
IV. The age and death of Joseph, ver. 22-26.
Verse 1. And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him, and
kissed him - Joseph shewed his faith in God, and love to his
father, by kissing his pale and cold lips, and so giving an
affectionate farewell. Probably the rest of Jacob's sons did the
same, much moved, no doubt, with his dying words.
Verse
2. He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died
in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because
he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time.
Verse
3. He observed the ceremony of solemn mourning for him. Forty
days were taken up in embalming the body, which the Egyptians
had an art of doing so curiously, as to preserve the very features
of the face unchanged. All this time, and thirty days more, seventy
in all, they either confined themselves and sat solitary, or when
they went out, appeared in the habit of close mourners, according
to the decent custom of the country. Even the Egyptians, many of
them, out of the respect they had for Joseph, put themselves into
mourning for his father.
Verse
5. He asked and obtained leave of Pharaoh to go to Canaan, to
attend the funeral of his father. It was a piece of necessary respect
to Pharaoh, that he would not go without leave; for we may
suppose, though his charge about the corn was long since over,
yet he continued a prime minister of state, and therefore would
not be so long absent from his business without license.
Verse
11. The solemn mourning for Jacob gave a name to the place;
Abel-mizraim - The mourning of the Egyptians: which served for
a testimony against the next generation of the Egyptians, who
oppressed the posterity of this Jacob, to whom their ancestors
shewed such respect.
Verse
15. Joseph will peradventure hate us - While their father lived,
they thought themselves safe under his shadow; but now he was
dead, they feared the worst. A guilty conscience exposeth men to
continual frights; those that would be fearless must keep
themselves guiltless.
Verse
16. Thy father did command - Thus in humbling ourselves to
Christ by faith and repentance, we may plead that it is the
command of his father and our father we should do so.
Verse
17. We are the servants of the God of thy father - Not only
children of the same Jacob, but worshippers of the same Jehovah.
Though we must be ready to forgive all that injure us, yet we must
especially take heed of bearing malice towards any that are the
servants of the God of our father; those we should always treat
with a peculiar tenderness, for we and they have the same master.
He wept when they spake to him - These were tears of sorrow for
their suspicion of him, and tears of tenderness upon their
submission.
Verse
19. Am I in the place of God? - He in his great humility thought
they shewed him too much respect, and faith to them in effect, as
Peter to Cornelius, Stand up, I myself also am a man. Make your
peace with God, and then you will find it an easy matter to make
your peace with me.
Verse
20. Ye thought evil, but God meant it unto good - In order to the
making Joseph a greater blessing to his family than otherwise he
could have been.
Verse
21. Fear not, I will nourish you - See what an excellent spirit
Joseph was of, and learn of him to render good for evil. He did
not tell them they were upon their good behaviour, and he would
be kind to them if he saw they carried themselves well: no, he
would not thus hold them in suspence, nor seem jealous of them,
though they had been suspicious of him. He comforted them, and,
to banish all their fears, he spake kindly to them. Those we love
and forgive we must not only do well for, but speak kindly to.
Verse
24. I die, but God will surely visit you - To this purpose Jacob had
spoken to him, chap. xlviii, 21. Thus must we comfort others with
the same comforts wherewith we ourselves have been comforted
of God, and encourage them to rest on those promises which have
been our support. Joseph was, under God, both the protector and
benefactor of his brethren, and what would become of them now
he was dying? Why let this be their comfort, God will surely visit
you. God's gracious visits will serve to make up the loss of our
best friends, and bring you out of this land - And therefore, they
must not hope to settle there, nor look upon it as their rest for
ever; they must set their hearts upon the land of promise, and call
that their home.
Verse
25. And ye shall carry up my bones from hence - Herein he had an
eye to the promise, chap. xv, 13, 14, and in God's name assures
them of the performance of it. In Egypt they buried their great
men very honourably, and with abundance of pomp; but Joseph
prefers a plain burial in Canaan, and that deferred almost two
hundred years, before a magnificent one in Egypt. Thus Joseph by
faith in the doctrine of the resurrection, and the promise of
Canaan, gave commandment concerning his bones, Heb. xi, 22.
He dies in Egypt; but lays his bones at stake, that God will surely
visit Israel, and bring them to Canaan.
Verse
26. He was put in a coffin in Egypt - But not buried till his
children had received their inheritance in Canaan, Josh. xxiv, 32.
If the soul do but return to its rest with God, the matter is not
great, though the deserted body find not at all, or not quickly, its
rest in the grave. Yet care ought to be taken of the dead bodies of
the saints, in the belief of their resurrection; for there is a covenant
with the dust which shall be remembered, and a commandment
given concerning the bones.
Chapter 50:
| Calvin
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Revelation Exodus
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