Genesis 47:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. ”

Genesis 47:23 - 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...
Genesis 47:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joseph Takes Advantage of the Famine to Secure for the Crown the Money, the Cattle, and the Lands of the Egyptians. If this belongs to one of the main documents, J is the most probable. But it may...
Genesis 47:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. Then Joseph said unto the people. Here Moses describes the singular humanity of Joseph, which, as it then repressed all complaints, so, at this time, it justly dispels and refutes the cal...
Genesis 47:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. I have bought you this day and your land for Pha...
Genesis 47:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then Joseph said, &c.— These three verses confirm all that we have said of the wisdom and humanity of Joseph. A wise minister of state, but, at the same time, generous, tender, and compassionat...
Genesis 47:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. Joseph said ... Behold ... The land being...
Genesis 47:23 - 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...
Genesis 47:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lo, here is seed for you. — As Joseph would give them seed wherewith to sow their fields only when the famine was nearly over, these arrangements seem to have been completed shortly before the end...
Genesis 47:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JOSEPH'S ADMINISTRATION Genesis 41:37-57 , Genesis 47:13-26 "He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."...
Genesis 47:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Egyptians Saved in Famine Genesis 47:13-26 The slender stores of the Egyptians were soon exhausted, and had it not been for Joseph the streets would have been filled with the dying and dead. Hi...
Genesis 47:23 - 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....
Genesis 47:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is somewhat remarkable that Jacob lost Joseph at the age of seventeen: and now the LORD grants the same number of years for them to be together. The intermediate space of Joseph's life, the LORD h...
Genesis 47:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE’ ‘Behold I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.’ Genesis 47:23 The R.V. translates the song of the elders thus: ‘Thou wast slain, and didst purch...
Genesis 47:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then Joseph said unto the people ,.... After he had bought their land, and before the removal of them to distant parts: behold, I have bought you this day, and your land, for Pharaoh : which he ob...
Genesis 47:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. Ver. 23. Lo, seed for you, and ye shall sow...
Genesis 47:23 - 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...
Genesis 47:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Distressed Occasioned by the Famine. B. C. 1706. 13 And there was no bread in all th...
Genesis 47:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For this was the last year of the famine, as was noted before.
Genesis 47:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Then Joseph said, “Behold I have bought you this day, and your land, for Pharaoh. Look here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land, and it shall be that at the ingatherings you shall give one f...
Genesis 47:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 47:21 . He removed them to cities.] Heb.— According to the cities. “Thus he distributed the population of the land in and around the cities according to the cities in...
Genesis 47:23 - 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...
Genesis 47:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the Land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house The morality of...
Genesis 47:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren ( i.e. gave them a settlement, the import of which the next clause explains), and gave them a possession ( i.e....
Genesis 47:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Consequences of the Severe Famine.
Genesis 47:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

bought. Genesis 47:19 here is seed. Genesis 41:27 Genesis 45:6 Psalms 41:1 Psalms 107:36 Psalms 107:37 Psalms 112:5 Proverbs 11:26 Proverbs 12:11 Proverbs 13:23 Ecclesiastes 11:6...

Genesis 47:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 47:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 47:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 47:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 47:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 47:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 47:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge