PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Genesis
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 265,871 words · 567 reading sections
Genesis 45:6
Genesis 45:6 Ver. 6. For these two years [hath] the famine [been], in the land,.... In the land of Egypt and in the countries round about: and yet [there are] five years; still remaining, which he knew by the above dreams and the interpretation of them: in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest; tha…
171 wordsSECTION 482Genesis 45:7
Genesis 45:7 Ver. 7. And God sent me before you,.... This he repeats to impress the minds of his brethren with a sense of the good providence of God in bringing him to Egypt before them, to make provision for their future welfare, and to alleviate their grief, and prevent an excessive sorrow for their selling him into…
166 wordsSECTION 483Genesis 45:8
Genesis 45:8 Ver. 8. So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God,.... Which is to be understood not absolutely, as if they had no concern at all in sending him thither; they sold him to the Ishmaelites, who brought him down to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, and so were instrumental in his coming to Egypt; …
284 wordsSECTION 484Genesis 45:9
Genesis 45:9 Ver. 9. Haste you, and go up to my father,.... In Canaan, which lay higher than Egypt; being desirous he should know as soon as possible that he was alive, and in what circumstances he was: and say unto him, thus saith thy son Joseph; without any title, such as the father and counsellor of Pharaoh and go…
166 wordsSECTION 485Genesis 45:10
Genesis 45:10 Ver. 10. And thou shall dwell in the land of Goshen,.... Called by Artapanus {t} Kaisan or Kessan; the Septuagint version Gesan of Arabia, as it was that part of Egypt which bordered on Arabia: it seems to be the same with the land of Rameses, see Ge 47:11; and the Heliopolitan home, which, Strabo {u} sa…
647 wordsSECTION 486Genesis 45:11
Genesis 45:11 Ver. 11. And there will I nourish thee,.... Provide for him and his family: for yet [there are] five years of famine; still to come, two of the seven only being past: lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty; his whole posterity be consumed, as it would be in all probabilit…
72 wordsSECTION 487Genesis 45:12
Genesis 45:12 Ver. 12. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,.... They were eyewitnesses of his being alive, having themselves seen him, and even Benjamin, who could not be suspected by his father of a fraud in imposing on him; and some of them could doubtless remember his features, and had a…
139 wordsSECTION 488Genesis 45:13
Genesis 45:13 Ver. 13. And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt,.... His wealth and riches, his grandeur and dignity, his power and authority: and of all that you have seen; what a magnificent house he dwelt in; what a numerous train of servants he had; in what majesty he rode in the second chariot to th…
111 wordsSECTION 489Genesis 45:14
Genesis 45:14 Ver. 14. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept,.... On his neck first, because he was his own brother by father and mother's side; and he wept over him for joy that he had a sight of him once more: the word for "neck" is in the plural number, and being used, may signify that he fell first…
97 wordsSECTION 490Genesis 45:15
Genesis 45:15 Ver. 15. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren,.... In their turns, to testify his real affection for them, and hearty reconciliation to them: and wept upon them; that is, upon their necks, as he had on Benjamin's: and after that his brethren talked with him: being emboldened by this carriage of his to …
126 wordsSECTION 491Genesis 45:16
Genesis 45:16 Ver. 16. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,.... The report was carried to court, and there it was told by some from Joseph's house, who had overheard what had passed, at least somewhat of it: saying, Joseph's brethren are come; perhaps they might call him by his Egyptian name, though the…
2,552 wordsSECTION 492Genesis 46:1
Genesis 46:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 46 In this chapter we are told, that Jacob with all his family and substance took a journey to Egypt to see his son Joseph, as he determined, in which he was encouraged to proceed by a vision from God, Ge 46:1; and an account is given of all his sons, his sons' sons and daughters …
338 wordsSECTION 493Genesis 46:2
Genesis 46:2 Ver. 2. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,.... He appeared to Jacob as he lay upon his bed in the night season, and with an articulate voice spoke to him as follows: and said, Jacob, Jacob: not "Israel", the more honourable name he had given him, but Jacob, putting him in mind of his …
133 wordsSECTION 494Genesis 46:3
Genesis 46:3 Ver. 3. And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy father,.... His father Isaac, who was now dead, and who is the rather mentioned, because in him Abraham's seed was to be called, and in his line the promise both of the land of Canaan, and of the Messiah, ran, and from him Jacob received the blessing; and th…
484 wordsSECTION 495Genesis 46:4
Genesis 46:4 Ver. 4. I will go down with thee into Egypt,.... Which was enough to silence all his fears; for if the presence of God went with him to protect and defend hide, to bless and prosper him, and to direct, support, and comfort, he had nothing to fear from any quarter: and I will also surely bring thee up [ag…
407 wordsSECTION 496Genesis 46:5
Genesis 46:5 Ver. 5. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba,.... In high spirits, and proceeded on in his journey, being encouraged and animated by the promises of God now made unto him: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry …
193 wordsSECTION 497Genesis 46:6
Genesis 46:6 Ver. 6. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,.... Some interpreters add, by way of explanation, and in Mesopotamia; much of Jacob's substance being yet there, though the greatest part was got in Canaan, and so that is put for the whole; and Jarchi suppos…
207 wordsSECTION 498Genesis 46:7
Genesis 46:7 Ver. 7. His sons, and his sons' sons with him,.... His eleven sons, and their sons, his grandchildren: and his daughters; his own daughter Dinah, and his daughters in law, the wives of his sons; for these came with him into Egypt, as appears from Ge 46:5; though the plural may be put for the singular, as…
166 wordsSECTION 499Genesis 46:8
Genesis 46:8 Ver. 8. And these [are] the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt,.... Not meaning precisely Jacob's seed and offspring, but the body of the people of Israel, as they were when they went into Egypt, including Jacob himself: Jacob and his sons; for he went with them to Egypt, and was the h…
71 wordsSECTION 500Genesis 46:9
Genesis 46:9 Ver. 9. And the sons of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. From whom came the families named after them, of which they were the heads, Nu 26:5.…
34 wordsSECTION 501Genesis 46:10
Genesis 46:10 Ver. 10. And the sons of Simeon,.... Who was the second son of Jacob: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar; the first of these is called Nemuel, Nu 26:12; the third, Ohad, is omitted in the places referred to, he dying without children, as may be supposed, and so was not the head of any fa…
190 wordsSECTION 502Genesis 46:11
Genesis 46:11 Ver. 11. And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. From these sprung the priests and Levites, see Nu 3:1.…
25 wordsSECTION 503Genesis 46:12
Genesis 46:12 Ver. 12. And the sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah,.... Five of them: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and so did not go with Jacob into Egypt; and which is observed that they might not be reckoned among them, though it was proper to take notice of them in the gen…
205 wordsSECTION 504Genesis 46:13
Genesis 46:13 Ver. 13. And the sons of Issachar, Tola, and Phuvah; and Job, and Shimron. The first of these was the father of a numerous race in the days of David, their number was 22,600; See Gill on "1Ch 7:2"; the second is called Puah, and the third Jashub, and the fourth Shimrom, 1Ch 7:1; and were all the heads of…
74 wordsSECTION 505Genesis 46:14
Genesis 46:14 Ver. 14. And the sons of Zebulun, Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. Whose names are the same in Nu 26:26.…
24 wordsSECTION 506Genesis 46:15
Genesis 46:15 Ver. 15. These are the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram,.... Which must be restrained to the six sons only, who were properly Leah's, and not to their sons' sons, for they were not born in Padanaram, but in Canaan: with his daughter Dinah; who also was by Leah: all the souls of his …
249 wordsSECTION 507Genesis 46:16
Genesis 46:16 Ver. 16. And the sons of Gad,.... A son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's maid; for the historian, before he proceeds to give an account of his sons by Rachel, finishes the account of all his sons by Leah and her maid; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, and Eri, and Arodi, and Areli; in all seven; the same …
73 wordsSECTION 508Genesis 46:17
Genesis 46:17 Ver. 17. And the sons of Asher,.... Another son of Jacob by Leah's maid Zilpah, whose sons were, Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; who is called Sarah, Nu 26:46, and by the Septuagint here. She seems to have been a person of some note, being so particularly remarked in bo…
2,983 wordsSECTION 509Genesis 47:1
Genesis 47:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 47 This chapter gives an account of the presentation of five of Joseph's brethren, and then of his father, to Pharaoh, and of what passed between them, Ge 47:1; of Joseph's settlement of them, according to the direction of Pharaoh, in the land of Rameses in Goshen, and of his prov…
375 wordsSECTION 510Genesis 47:2
Genesis 47:2 Ver. 2. And he took some of his brethren,.... Along with him, when he left his father in Goshen; the word for "some" signifies the extremity of a thing: hence some have fancied that he took some of the meanest and most abject, so Jarchi, lest if they had appeared to Pharaoh strong and robust, he should ha…
190 wordsSECTION 511Genesis 47:3
Genesis 47:3 Ver. 3. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, what [is] your occupation?.... Which is the question he had told his brethren beforehand would be asked them, and prepared them to give an answer to it, Ge 46:33; which was perhaps an usual question Pharaoh asked of persons that came to settle in his dominions, …
108 wordsSECTION 512Genesis 47:4
Genesis 47:4 Ver. 4. They said moreover unto Pharaoh, for to sojourn in the land are we come,.... Not to obtain possessions and inheritances, as if natives, and to abide there always, but to continue for a little time; for they kept in mind that the land of Canaan was given to them as an inheritance, and would be poss…
300 wordsSECTION 513Genesis 47:5
Genesis 47:5 Ver. 5. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,.... Who was present at the conversation that passed between him and his brethren: saying, thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee; which is observed, not for Joseph's information, but to lead on to what he had to say further.…
51 wordsSECTION 514Genesis 47:6
Genesis 47:6 Ver. 6. The land of Egypt [is] before thee,.... To choose what part of it he should judge most suitable and agreeable to his father and brethren: in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell, in the land of Goshen let them dwell; as is requested; and which was, as Pharaoh here suggests, …
335 wordsSECTION 515Genesis 47:7
Genesis 47:7 Ver. 7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father,.... That is, some time after he had introduced his five brethren, and had gotten the grant of Goshen for them, when he sent, for his father from thence, or he came quickly after to Tanis or Memphis, where Pharaoh's court was: and set him before Pharaoh; pre…
200 wordsSECTION 516Genesis 47:8
Genesis 47:8 Ver. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, how old [art] thou?] Or, "how many are the days of the years of thy life?" which way of speaking Jacob takes up, and very pertinently makes use of in his answer that follows: Dr. Lightfoot {m} thinks Pharaoh had never seen so old a man before, so grave a head, and so g…
78 wordsSECTION 517Genesis 47:9
Genesis 47:9 Ver. 9. Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years,.... He calls his life a "pilgrimage"; as every good man's is; they are not at home in their own country, they are seeking a better, even an heavenly one: Jacob's life was very emphatically and litera…
402 wordsSECTION 518Genesis 47:10
Genesis 47:10 Ver. 10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. When he took his leave of him, he blessed him, in like manner as when he came into his presence, by wishing all happiness to him, and giving him thanks for the honour he had done him, and the favours he had conferred on him and his.…
62 wordsSECTION 519Genesis 47:11
Genesis 47:11 Ver. 11. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt,.... Houses to dwell in, lands to till, and pastures to feed their flocks and herds in: in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded; according to Jarchi and Aben Ezra, the la…
878 wordsSECTION 520Genesis 47:12
Genesis 47:12 Ver. 12. And. Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and his father's household, with bread,.... For though there might be in Rameses pasture sufficient for their cattle, yet not corn for their families, the famine still continuing; during which time Joseph, as a dutiful and affectionate son, and…
190 wordsSECTION 521Genesis 47:13
Genesis 47:13 Ver. 13. And [there was] no bread in all the land,.... The land of Egypt and the parts adjacent, but in Pharaoh's storehouses, all being consumed that were in private hands the first two years of the famine: for the famine [was] very sore; severe, pressed very hard: so that the land of Egypt, and [all]…
279 wordsSECTION 522Genesis 47:14
Genesis 47:14 Ver. 14. And Joseph gathered up all the money,.... Not that he went about to collect it, or employed men to do it, but he gathered it, being brought to him for corn as follows: even all that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: by which means those c…
345 wordsSECTION 523Genesis 47:15
Genesis 47:15 Ver. 15. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,.... It had been all spent in the third, fourth, and fifth years of the famine; for it seems to be at the end of the fifth, or beginning of the sixth year of the famine, that this was the case, since we after read of a second …
216 wordsSECTION 524Genesis 47:16
Genesis 47:16 Ver. 16. And Joseph said, give your cattle,.... Oxen, sheep, horses, asses, as follows:and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail; that is, corn for cattle, if they had no money to give. Genesis 47:17Ver. 17. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph,.... Which they might the more readily do, sin…
3,089 wordsSECTION 525Genesis 48:1
Genesis 48:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 48 Joseph, hearing that his father Jacob was sick, paid him a visit, Ge 49:1; at which time Jacob gave him an account of the Lord's appearing to him at Luz, and of the promise he made unto him, Ge 49:3; then he adopted his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and blessed them, and Jose…
314 wordsSECTION 526Genesis 48:2
Genesis 48:2 Ver. 2. And [one] told Jacob,.... The same that came from Jacob to Joseph might be sent back by him to, his father, to let him know that he was coming to see him, or some other messenger sent on purpose; for it can hardly be thought that this was an accidental thing on either side: and said, behold, thy …
175 wordsSECTION 527Genesis 48:3
Genesis 48:3 Ver. 3. And Jacob said unto Joseph,.... Being come into his bedchamber, and sitting by him, or standing before him: God Almighty appeared unto at Luz in the land of Canaan; the same with Bethel, where God appeared, both at his going to Padanaram, and at his return from thence, Ge 28:11; which of those ti…
107 wordsSECTION 528Genesis 48:4
Genesis 48:4 Ver. 4. And said unto me, behold, I will make thee fruitful,.... In a spiritual sense, in grace and good works; in a literal sense, in an increase of worldly substance, and especially of children: and multiply thee; make his posterity numerous as the sand of the sea: and I will make of thee a multitude …
195 wordsSECTION 529Genesis 48:5
Genesis 48:5 Ver. 5. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,.... Ephraim was the youngest, but is mentioned first, as he afterwards was preferred in the blessing of him: which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt; and therefore must be twenty years of age, or upwards: for J…
184 wordsSECTION 530Genesis 48:6
Genesis 48:6 Ver. 6. And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,.... The children of Joseph, that either were, or would be begotten after Ephraim and Manasseh; though whether ever any were is not certain; and this is only mentioned by way of supposition, as Jarchi interprets it, "if thou shouldest …
151 wordsSECTION 531Genesis 48:7
Genesis 48:7 Ver. 7. And as for me, when I came from Padan,.... From Syria, from Laban's house: Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan; his beloved wife, the mother of Joseph, on whose account he mentions her, and to show a reason why he took his sons as his own, because his mother dying so soon, he could have no mo…
327 wordsSECTION 532Genesis 48:8
Genesis 48:8 Ver. 8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons,.... Ephraim and Manasseh, of whom he had been speaking as if they were absent, and he might not know until now that they were present, for his eyes were dim that he could not see clearly, Ge 49:10; he saw two young men standing by Joseph, but knew not who they were…
132 wordsSECTION 533Genesis 48:9
Genesis 48:9 Ver. 9. And Joseph said unto his father, they [are] my sons, whom God hath given me in this [place],.... In the land of Egypt; he accounts his sons as the gifts of God, as children are, Ps 127:3; and it was not only a sentiment of the Jews, that children are the gift of God; hence the names of Mattaniah, …
151 wordsSECTION 534Genesis 48:10
Genesis 48:10 Ver. 10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,.... Or "heavy" {p}, that he could not lift them up easily and see clearly; his eyebrows hung over, his eyes were sunk in his head, and the humours pressed them through old age, that it was with difficulty he could perceive an object, at least not distinct…
132 wordsSECTION 535Genesis 48:11
Genesis 48:11 Ver. 11. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face,.... Some years ago he never expected to have seen him any more; he had given him up for lost, as a dead man, when his sons brought him his coat dipped in blood; and by reason of the long course of years which passed before ever he h…
129 wordsSECTION 536Genesis 48:12
Genesis 48:12 Ver. 12. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees,.... Either from between his own, where they were kneeling, as he was sitting, in order that they might be nearer his father, to receive his blessing by the putting on of his hands; or rather from between his father's knees, he, as Aben Ezra obs…
175 wordsSECTION 537Genesis 48:13
Genesis 48:13 Ver. 13. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,.... He took Ephraim his youngest son in his right hand, and led him up to his father, by which means he would stand in a right position to have his grandfather's left hand put upon him: and Manasseh in his left hand…
131 wordsSECTION 538Genesis 48:14
Genesis 48:14 Ver. 14. And Israel stretched out his right hand,.... Not directly forward, but across, or otherwise it would have been laid on Manasseh, as Joseph designed it should by the position he placed him in: and laid [it] upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, the right hand being the strongest and most i…
292 wordsSECTION 539Genesis 48:15
Genesis 48:15 Ver. 15. And he blessed Joseph,.... In his sons who were reckoned for him, and became the heads of tribes in his room: and said, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk; in whom they believed, whom they professed, and whom they feared, served, and worshipped, and with whom they had communi…
129 wordsSECTION 540Genesis 48:16
Genesis 48:16 Ver. 16. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,.... Ephraim and Manasseh, now about twenty years old or upwards: this is not to be understood of a created angel he wishes to be their guardian, but of an eternal one, the Son of God, the Angel of God's presence, the Angel of the covenan…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.