Genesis 47:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. ”

• Genesis 47:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Jacob in Goshen 11. רעמסס ra‛m e sês , Ra‘meses “son of the sun.” 31. מטה mı̂ṭṭāh , “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh “staff.” Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he took some of his brethren, [even] (a) five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. (a) That the king might be assured that they had come, and to see what type of people they were.

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• Genesis 47:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 46:1 to Genesis 47:12 . Jacob and his Descendants Go down into Egypt and Settle in Goshen. The list in Genesis 46:8-27 with the introductory verses Genesis 46:6 f. is from P, as are...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. He took some of his brethren - There is something very strange in the original; literally translated it signifies "...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. Took some of his brethren - probably the five oldest brothers, seniority being the least invidious principle...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Joseph presents his Brethren and his Father to Pharaoh. He makes extensive Changes in the Land Tenure of Egypt 6. Rulers over my cattle] The superintendenee of the royal flocks and herds would be...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Even five men. — As the number “five” appears again and again in this narrative ( Genesis 43:34 ; Genesis 45:22 ), it may have had some special importance among the Egyptians, like the number seve...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Pharaoh Welcome's Joseph's Relatives Genesis 46:28-34 ; Genesis 47:1-12 What a meeting between father and son! If the old man were sitting in the corner of the lumbering wagon, weary with the...

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• Genesis 47:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  To watch Jacob is to see a man who alternated between faith and fear. Standing before Pharaoh, his faith in God and his consciousness of his own position in the divine economy were clearly apparent....

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• Genesis 47:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! so must JESUS present us before GOD and our FATHER, or we cannot come before him, John 14:6 .

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• Genesis 47:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 mea...

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• Genesis 47:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. Ver. 2. Even five men. ] R. Solomon telleth us (but who told him?) which five they were; sc., Reuben, Simeon,...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He took some of his brethren The original words here, literally translated, are, He took from the end, extremity , or tail of his brethren , five men And some have thought the sense is, He to...

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• Genesis 47:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In announcing to Pharaoh the coming of his father and his brothers, Joseph first introduces five of his brothers to him (vs.1-2). We are not told which ones, but they were likely those who could spea...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. B. C. 1706.       1 Then Joseph came and tol...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Some of his brethren, or part, as this Hebrew word is used, Daniel 1:2 ; or the extremity, or end, or tail of them, i.e. the meanest of them for person and presence, as the word is ta...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 47:2 . Five men.] The number five was a favourite number with the Egyptians. ( Genesis 41:34 ; Genesis 42:34 ; Genesis 45:22 ; Genesis 47:2 ).— Genesis 47:7 . Jac...

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• Genesis 47:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 47:2 . Some of his brethren. ומקצה vemi-ketzeh extremitate, as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2 , when desc...

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• Genesis 47:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 47:1 Then Joseph came —literally, and Joseph went, up to the royal presence, as he had proposed ( Genesis 46:31 )— and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethre...

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• Genesis 47:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jacob and Five of his Sons Presented to Pharaoh

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• Genesis 47:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  presented. Acts 7:13 2 Corinthians 4:14 Colossians 1:28

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• Genesis 47:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Blessed and Made a Blessing Genesis 47:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Chapter 46 of Genesis we are passing over with a few words of introduction, which will lead us into chapter 47, Chapter 46 is tak...

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