{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/tsk/gen050.htm","path":"bib/cmt/tsk/gen050.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/tsk/gen050.htm","text":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880]\nOverview\nGen 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.\nfell: Gen 46:4; Deu 6:7, Deu 6:8; Eph 6:4\nwept: Gen 23:2; Kg2 13:14; Mar 5:38, Mar 5:39; Joh 11:35-38; Act 8:2; Th1 4:13\nthe 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.\nembalmed: 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\nforty 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.\nmourned: Heb. wept\nthreescore: Num 20:29; Deu 21:13, Deu 34:8\nthe days: Gen 50:10\nJoseph: Est 4:2\nfound grace: Gen 18:3\nmade me: Gen 47:29-31\nI die: Gen 50:24, Gen 48:21, Gen 49:29, Gen 49:30; Deu 4:22; Sa1 14:43\nI have: Ch2 16:14; Isa 22:16; Mat 27:60\nbury me: Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Psa 79:3; Ecc 6:3, Ecc 12:5, Ecc 12:7\nlet me go: Mat 8:21, Mat 8:22; Luk 9:59, Luk 9:60\nas he made: Gen 48:21\nand with him: Gen 14:16\nonly their: Exo 10:8, Exo 10:9, Exo 10:26; Num 32:24-27\nchariots: Gen 41:43, Gen 46:29; Exo 14:7, Exo 14:17, Exo 14:28; Kg2 18:24; Sol 1:9; Act 8:2\nthe 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.\nseven days: Gen 50:4; Num 19:11; Deu 34:8; Sa1 31:13; Sa2 1:17; Job 2:13; Act 8:2\nthe Canaanites: Gen 10:15-19, Gen 13:7, Gen 24:6, Gen 34:30\nAbelmizraim: i.e. The mourning of the Egyptians, Sa1 6:18\nbeyond Jordan: Gen 50:10; Deu 3:25, Deu 3:27, Deu 11:30\nGen 47:29-31, Gen 49:29-32; Exo 20:12; Act 7:16; Eph 6:1\nthe cave: Gen 23:16-18, Gen 25:9, Gen 35:27, Gen 35:29, Gen 49:29-31; Kg2 21:18\ntheir father: Gen 27:41, Gen 27:42\nJoseph: Gen 42:17; Lev 26:36; Job 15:21, Job 15:22; Psa 14:5, Psa 53:5; Pro 28:1; Rom 2:15\nsent: Heb. charged, Pro 29:25\nForgive: 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\nthey did: Gen 50:20; Job 33:27, Job 33:28; Psa 21:11; Pro 28:13; Jam 5:16\nservants: 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\nwept: Gen 42:21-24, Gen 45:4, Gen 45:5, Gen 45:8\nfell: Gen 27:29, Gen 37:7-11, Gen 42:6, Gen 44:14, Gen 45:3\nfear not: Gen 45:5; Mat 14:27; Luk 24:37, Luk 24:38\nfor 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\nye thought: Gen 37:4, Gen 37:18-20; Psa 56:5\nGod 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\nI 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\nkindly unto them: Heb. to their hearts, Gen 34:3; Isa 40:2 *marg.\nan 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\nthe children: Gen 48:19, Gen 49:12; Num 32:33, Num 32:39; Jos 17:1; Job 42:16; Psa 128:6\nbrought up: Heb. born\nJoseph's: Gen 30:3\nI die: Gen 50:5, Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Ecc 12:5, Ecc 12:7; Rom 5:12; Heb 9:27\nyou out: Gen 15:14-16, Gen 26:3, Gen 35:12, Gen 46:4, Gen 48:21; Exo 3:16, Exo 3:17\nsware: 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\ntook an: Gen 50:5, Gen 47:29-31\nand ye: Exo 13:19; Jos 24:32; Act 7:16; Heb 11:22\nbeing 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\nthey embalmed: Gen 50:2, Gen 50:3","title":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Genesis: Genesis Chapter 50","type":"page"}