Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Genesis Chapter 50
Overview
Gen 50:1, The mourning for Jacob; Gen 50:4, Joseph gets leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him; Gen 50:7, The funeral; Gen 50:15, Joseph comforts his brethren, who crave his pardon; Gen 50:22, His age; Gen 50:23, He sees the third generation of his sons; Gen 50:24, He prophesies unto his brethren of their return; Gen 50:25, He takes an oath of them concerning his bones; Gen 50:26, He dies, and is put into a coffin.
fell: Gen 46:4; Deu 6:7, Deu 6:8; Eph 6:4
wept: Gen 23:2; Kg2 13:14; Mar 5:38, Mar 5:39; Joh 11:35-38; Act 8:2; Th1 4:13
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; Ch2 16:14; Mat 26:12; Mar 14:8, Mar 16:1; Luk 24:1; Joh 12:7, Joh 19:39, Joh 19:40
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; Deu 21:13, Deu 34:8
the days: Gen 50:10
Joseph: Est 4:2
found grace: Gen 18:3
made me: Gen 47:29-31
I die: Gen 50:24, Gen 48:21, Gen 49:29, Gen 49:30; Deu 4:22; Sa1 14:43
I have: Ch2 16:14; Isa 22:16; Mat 27:60
bury me: Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Psa 79:3; Ecc 6:3, Ecc 12:5, Ecc 12:7
let me go: Mat 8:21, Mat 8:22; Luk 9:59, Luk 9:60
as he made: Gen 48:21
and with him: Gen 14:16
only their: Exo 10:8, Exo 10:9, Exo 10:26; Num 32:24-27
chariots: Gen 41:43, Gen 46:29; Exo 14:7, Exo 14:17, Exo 14:28; Kg2 18:24; Sol 1:9; Act 8:2
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.
seven days: Gen 50:4; Num 19:11; Deu 34:8; Sa1 31:13; Sa2 1:17; Job 2:13; Act 8:2
the Canaanites: Gen 10:15-19, Gen 13:7, Gen 24:6, Gen 34:30
Abelmizraim: i.e. The mourning of the Egyptians, Sa1 6:18
beyond Jordan: Gen 50:10; Deu 3:25, Deu 3:27, Deu 11:30
Gen 47:29-31, Gen 49:29-32; Exo 20:12; Act 7:16; Eph 6:1
the cave: Gen 23:16-18, Gen 25:9, Gen 35:27, Gen 35:29, Gen 49:29-31; Kg2 21:18
their father: Gen 27:41, Gen 27:42
Joseph: Gen 42:17; Lev 26:36; Job 15:21, Job 15:22; Psa 14:5, Psa 53:5; Pro 28:1; Rom 2:15
sent: Heb. charged, Pro 29:25
Forgive: Mat 6:12, Mat 6:14, Mat 6:15, Mat 18:35; Luk 17:3, Luk 17:4; Eph 4:32; Col 3:12, Col 3:13
they did: Gen 50:20; Job 33:27, Job 33:28; Psa 21:11; Pro 28:13; Jam 5:16
servants: Gen 31:42, Gen 49:25; Mat 10:42, Mat 25:40; Mar 10:41; Gal 6:10, Gal 6:16; Plm 1:8-20
wept: Gen 42:21-24, Gen 45:4, Gen 45:5, Gen 45:8
fell: Gen 27:29, Gen 37:7-11, Gen 42:6, Gen 44:14, Gen 45:3
fear not: Gen 45:5; Mat 14:27; Luk 24:37, Luk 24:38
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; Deu 32:35; Kg2 5:7; Job 34:19-29; Rom 12:19; Heb 10:30
ye thought: Gen 37:4, Gen 37:18-20; Psa 56:5
God meant: Gen 45:5-8; Psa 76:10, Psa 105:16, Psa 105:17, Psa 119:71; Isa 10:7; Act 2:23, Act 3:13-15, Act 3:26; Rom 8:28
I will nourish: Gen 45:10, Gen 45:11, Gen 47:12; Mat 5:44, Mat 6:14; Rom 12:20, Rom 12:21; Th1 5:15; Pe1 3:9
kindly unto them: Heb. to their hearts, Gen 34:3; Isa 40:2 *marg.
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
the children: Gen 48:19, Gen 49:12; Num 32:33, Num 32:39; Jos 17:1; Job 42:16; Psa 128:6
brought up: Heb. born
Joseph's: Gen 30:3
I die: Gen 50:5, Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Ecc 12:5, Ecc 12:7; Rom 5:12; Heb 9:27
you out: Gen 15:14-16, Gen 26:3, Gen 35:12, Gen 46:4, Gen 48:21; Exo 3:16, Exo 3:17
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; Exo 33:1; Num 32:11; Deu 1:8, Deu 6:10
took an: Gen 50:5, Gen 47:29-31
and ye: Exo 13:19; Jos 24:32; Act 7:16; Heb 11:22
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; Jos 24:29
they embalmed: Gen 50:2, Gen 50:3