PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Genesis
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 265,871 words · 567 reading sections
Genesis 49:1
Genesis 49:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 49 This chapter contains a prophecy of future things, relating to the twelve sons of Jacob, and to the twelve tribes, as descending from them, and which he delivered to his sons on his death bed, having called them together for that purpose, Ge 49:1, he begins with Reuben his firs…
572 wordsSECTION 542Genesis 49:2
Genesis 49:2 Ver. 2. Gather yourselves together,.... This is repeated to hasten them, and to suggest that he had something of importance to make known unto them, which he chose to do, when they were together: and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father: these words are used and doubled to excite the…
78 wordsSECTION 543Genesis 49:3
Genesis 49:3 Ver. 3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn,.... Jacob addressed himself to Reuben first, in the presence of his brethren, owned him as his firstborn, as he was, Ge 29:31 did not cashier him from his family, nor disinherit him, though he had greatly disobliged him, for which the birthright, and the privileges o…
328 wordsSECTION 544Genesis 49:4
Genesis 49:4 Ver. 4. Unstable as water,.... Which is not to be understood of the levity of his mind, and his disposition to hurt, and the impetuous force of that breaking forth like water, and carrying him into the commission of it; but rather of his fall from his excellency and dignity, like the fall of water from an…
694 wordsSECTION 545Genesis 49:5
Genesis 49:5 Ver. 5. Simeon and Levi are brothers,.... Not because they were so in a natural sense, being brethren both by father and mother's side, for there were others so besides them; but because they were of like tempers, dispositions, and manners {f}, bold, wrathful, cruel, revengeful, and deceitful, and joined …
351 wordsSECTION 546Genesis 49:6
Genesis 49:6 Ver. 6. O my soul, come not thou into their secret,.... Their cabinet counsels, combinations and conspiracies; this Jacob said, as abhorring the wicked counsel they had took of slaying the Shechemites; and lest any should think he was concerned in it, or connived at it, he expressed a detestation of the f…
688 wordsSECTION 547Genesis 49:7
Genesis 49:7 Ver. 7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce,.... It was sinful anger in the nature of it, and so criminal and detestable; it was strong, fierce, and furious in its operation and effects, and so justly cursed; not their persons, but their passions: and their wrath, for it was cruel; it issued in the …
384 wordsSECTION 548Genesis 49:8
Genesis 49:8 Ver. 8. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise,.... His name signifies praise, and was given him by his mother, her heart being filled with praises to God for him, Ge 29:35 and is here confirmed by his father on another account, because his brethren should praise him for many excellent virtues …
364 wordsSECTION 549Genesis 49:9
Genesis 49:9 Ver. 9. Judah is a lion's whelp,.... Or as one; the note of similitude being wanting, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech observe; he was comparable to a young lion for his strength, courage, and generosity; and it may refer to the infant state of this tribe in the times of the judges, who first went up against t…
426 wordsSECTION 550Genesis 49:10
Genesis 49:10 Ver. 10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,.... Which some understand of the tribe, that Judah should not cease from being a tribe, or that it should continue a distinct tribe until the coming of the Messiah, who was to be of it, and was, and that it might appear he sprung from it; but this was not…
8,287 wordsSECTION 551Genesis 50:1
Genesis 50:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 50 This chapter contains a short account of what happened from the death of Jacob to the death of Joseph, and is chiefly concerned with the funeral of Jacob; it first gives an account how Joseph was affected with his father's death, of his orders to the physicians to embalm him, a…
454 wordsSECTION 552Genesis 50:2
Genesis 50:2 Ver. 2. And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father,.... Which he did, not merely because it was the custom of the Egyptians, but because it was necessary, his father's corpse being to be carried into Canaan to be interred there, which would require time; and therefore it was p…
522 wordsSECTION 553Genesis 50:3
Genesis 50:3 Ver. 3. Forty days were fulfilled for him,.... Were spent in embalming him: for so are fulfilled the days of those that are embalmed; so long the body lay in the pickle, in ointment of cedar, myrrh and cinnamon, and other things, that it might soak and penetrate thoroughly into it: and so Diodorus Siculu…
357 wordsSECTION 554Genesis 50:4
Genesis 50:4 Ver. 4. And when the days of his mourning were past,.... The forty days before mentioned, in which both the Egyptians and Jacob's family mourned for him. An Arabic writer {g} says, the Egyptians mourned for Jacob forty days, which was the time of embalming; but the text is express for sventy days: Joseph…
392 wordsSECTION 555Genesis 50:5
Genesis 50:5 Ver. 5. My father made me swear, saying, lo, I die,.... Having reason to believe he should not live long, he sent for Joseph, and took an oath of him to do as follows; this Joseph would have observed to Pharaoh, to show the necessity of his application to him, and the reasonableness of his request. The wo…
418 wordsSECTION 556Genesis 50:6
Genesis 50:6 Ver. 6. And Pharaoh said,.... To Joseph, by the courtiers that waited upon him at Joseph's request, who having delivered it to him had this answer: go up, and bury thy father, as he made thee swear; the oath seems to be the principal thing that influenced Pharaoh to grant the request, it being a sacred t…
112 wordsSECTION 557Genesis 50:7
Genesis 50:7 Ver. 7. And Joseph went up to bury his father,.... According to his request; having obtained leave of Pharaoh, and being desirous of paying his last respects, and doing his last office to so dear a parent, with all the honour and decency this service could be done with: and with him went up all the serva…
144 wordsSECTION 558Genesis 50:8
Genesis 50:8 Ver. 8. And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house,.... Joseph and his two sons, and his servants, and his eleven brethren and their sons that were grown up, and as many of his father's domestics as could be spared attended the funeral: only their little ones, and their flocks,…
117 wordsSECTION 559Genesis 50:9
Genesis 50:9 Ver. 9. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen,.... Which was done both for the sake of honour and grandeur, and for safety and defence, should they be attacked by robbers in the deserts, or opposed by the Canaanites, and be refused the use of the cave of Machpelah, and the right to it disp…
340 wordsSECTION 560Genesis 50:10
Genesis 50:10 Ver. 10. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad,.... Which was either the name of a man the owner of it, or of a place so called from the thorns and brambles which grew here, and with which the threshingfloor was surrounded, as Jarchi says, see Jud 9:14 and it was usual to make a hedge of thorns rou…
426 wordsSECTION 561Genesis 50:11
Genesis 50:11 Ver. 11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,.... Who were at this time in the possession of the country where the threshingfloor of Atad was: when they saw the mourning in the floor of Atad; for so large a company of people, and such a grand funeral procession, brought multitudes from …
180 wordsSECTION 562Genesis 50:12
Genesis 50:12 Ver. 12. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. Not only Joseph, but all the sons of Jacob were concerned in the burial of him, being all charged by him with it, and who were obedient to his commands as follows; see Ge 49:29.…
52 wordsSECTION 563Genesis 50:13
Genesis 50:13 Ver. 13. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan,.... That is, they took care that he was carried there, as he desired to be; for it cannot be thought that they carried him on their shoulders thither, in like manner as the devout men carried Stephen to his burial, Ac 8:2 and buried him in the c…
82 wordsSECTION 564Genesis 50:14
Genesis 50:14 Ver. 14. And Joseph returned into Egypt,.... As he promised he would,…
15 wordsSECTION 565Ge 50:5
Ge 50:5 he and his brethren; the eleven sons of Jacob; for though they had not made the same promise, nor Joseph for them, yet they returned, having left their little ones, flocks and herds, in Egypt: and all that went up with him to bury his father; the elders and great men of the land of Egypt, with their attendant…
113 wordsSECTION 566Genesis 50:15
Genesis 50:15 Ver. 15. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,.... And buried; for this and what follows were after their return to Egypt, from the burial of their father; though some think it was before, and as soon as they saw their father was dead, when they thought it a proper time, while Joseph…
245 wordsSECTION 567Genesis 50:16
Genesis 50:16 Ver. 16. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph,.... Not Bilhah, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, nor her sons, Dan and Naphtali, as Jarchi, grounding it on Ge 37:1 though it is not improbable that some from among themselves were deputed, who were most interested in Joseph; since it is not very l…
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