Genesis 37:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ”

Genesis 37:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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...
Genesis 37:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; They took Joseph's coat. The commission of one sin necessarily leads to another to conceal it; an...
Genesis 37:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 37:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Many days. — Jacob mourned for Joseph not merely during the usual period, but so long as to move even the hearts of those who had wronged him. For not only his daughters, but “all his sons rose up...
Genesis 37:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Genesis 37:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joseph Sold into Egypt Genesis 37:25-36 It was not chance, but providence, that brought these Midianites to the pit at that hour. They had, of course, fixed their time of departure from their n...
Genesis 37:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 37:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 39:1 ; Hebrews: Eunuch, or Chamberlain of Pharaoh's household, as well as Captain of the guard.
Genesis 37:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Jacob rent his clothes ,.... As expressive of his grief and mourning for the death of his son, as he supposed: and put sackcloth upon his loins ; put off his usual apparel, and put on a coarse...
Genesis 37:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. Ver. 34. Mourned for his son many days. ] Puerilitas est periculorum pelagus. Few live to be old,...
Genesis 37:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 37:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said...
Genesis 37:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Sackcloth, i.e. a coarse and mournful habit. This is the first example of that kind, but afterwards was in common use upon these occasions. See 2 Samuel 3:31 1 Kings 20:31 , 1 Kings 21:27 , &...
Genesis 37:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son for many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he...
Genesis 37:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 37:35 . The grave.] Heb. Sheol . The unseen world, or the place of departed spirits. The A.V. also renders this word in some places hell, in others the pit. Probably...
Genesis 37:34 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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 37:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 37:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 37:26 , Genesis 37:27 And Judah (apparently shrinking from the idea of murder) said unto his brethren, What profit is it if (literally, what of advantage that )...
Genesis 37:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jacob's Grief over Joseph
Genesis 37:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 37:29 Joshua 7:6 2 Samuel 1:11 2 Samuel 3:31 1 Kings 20:31 1 Kings 21:27 2 Kings 19:1 1 Chronicles 21:16 Ezra 9:3-5 Nehemiah 9:1 Esther 4:1-3 Job 1:20 Job 2:12 Psal...

Genesis 37:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 37:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 37:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 37:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 37:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 37:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 37:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge