“ And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. ”
- Joseph Was Sold into Egypt 17. דתין dotayı̂n Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius) 25. נכאת n e ko't “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum, yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native o...
Some assign to J; more probably it belongs to J and E. To J Genesis 37:12-13 a , Genesis 37:14 b ; to E Genesis 37:13 b , Genesis 37:14 a may be allotted. Genesis 37:15-17 may belong t...
12. And his brethren went. Before Moses treats of the horrible design of fratricide, he describes the journey of Joseph, and amplifies, by many circumstances, the atrocity of the crime. Their...
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. His brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. The vale of Shechem was, from the earliest mention of Canaan, blest w...
Joseph is Hated by his Brethren and Sold into Egypt With the exception of a few passages chiefly in Genesis 46, 49, the rest of the book of Genesis is taken from the Primitive source. The chief e...
Shechem. — Jacob’s sons seem to have retained Shechem, by right of their high-handed proceedings. related in Genesis 34:27-29 . By seizing the “ tafs” of the Shechemites, Simeon and Levi must hav...
JOSEPH'S DREAMS Genesis 37:1-36 "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee."- Psalms 76:10 THE migration of Israel from Canaan to Egypt was a step of prime importance in the history. Great d...
Joseph's Brothers Plot His Death Genesis 37:12-24 Throughout Joseph was a very remarkable type of our Lord. There was, first, this mission of the beloved son to inquire after the well-being of...
From this point in the sacred narrative, though Jacob appears more than once, for a time the history centers around Joseph, and it is certainly safe to say that in many aspects no more remarkable fig...
Luke 2:51 ; Luke 2:51 ; Acts 7:9 ; Shechem lay near 60 miles from Hebron.
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. Very probably some considerable time after the telling of the above dreams; it was usual to remove flocks from place to place for the...
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. Ver. 12. In Shechem. ] Sixty miles from Hebron, where Jacob now dwelt.
To feed in Shechem In the parts adjoining to Shechem, probably in the lands Jacob had purchased there. After the cruel and barbarous massacre which Jacob's sons had been guilty of toward the Sheche...
JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN How significant is the truth of verse 1, "Jacob lived in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan." It had taken him some years to finally settle there, b...
12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And...
In the parts adjoining to Shechem, in the lands which he had purchased there, Genesis 33:19 . Let none think strange that he should send his sheep so far from him, both because that land was hi...
‘And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.' Over the years things and circumstances change. It may be that Joseph was now not sent with them because of how they felt about him,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 37:3 . The son of his old age] He was ninety years old when Joseph was horn. A coat of many colours. ] Heb. A tunic of parts. The expression occurs again in 2 Samuel...
Genesis 37 Joseph's is one of the most interesting histories in the world. He has the strange power of uniting our hearts to him, as to a well-beloved friend. He had "the genius to be loved greatl...
Genesis 37:2 . These are the generations, or events which happened to Jacob's family. Sons of Bilhah. Jacob seems to have divided Leah's sons from the sons of the bond-women, who proved very wic...
His brethren went to feed their father’s flock Joseph leaves his father to seek his brethren Do you discover in this any type of the Redeemer? Does it remind you of one who left a far better h...
EXPOSITION Genesis 37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem — i.e. the modern Nablous, in the plain of Muknah, which belonged to Jacob partly by purchase and pa...
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. In taking care of the immense herds and flocks of their father, they were obliged to roam far and wide over the country, Shechem being o...
in Shechem. Genesis 37:1 Genesis 33:18 Genesis 34:25-31
Joseph Seeking His Brethren Genesis 37:12-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is difficult for us to understand why Joseph's brethren should have hated him. Joseph was but a youth of quiet mien and true...