Genesis 50:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, ”

Genesis 50:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Burial of Jacob 10. אטד 'āṭâd Atad, “the buck-thorn.” 11. מצרים אבל 'ābêl - mı̂tsrayı̂m , Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim. This chapter records...
Genesis 50:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. And they sent a messenger. Because they are ashamed themselves to speak, they engage messengers of peace, in whom Joseph might have greater confidence. But here also we perceive that they...
Genesis 50:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 62 JOSEPH’S BRETHREN FULFILLING THE PROPHECY RESPECTING THEM Genesis 50:15-17 . And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us,...
Genesis 50:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, Thy father did command - Whether he did or not we cannot tell. Some think they had feigned this story, bu...
Genesis 50:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thy father did command— It seems most probable, from the history, that this was a story feigned by the brethren, in order to influence Joseph the more; and this supposition well suits with that mea...
Genesis 50:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. When Joseph's brethre...
Genesis 50:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Burial of Jacob, and Death of Joseph 2. For the importance attached by the Egyptians to the preservation of the corpse see on Genesis 40:19 . The process, which was so thorough that mummies o...
Genesis 50:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy father did command... — Many Jewish expositors consider that this was untrue, and that Jacob was never made aware of the fact that his brethren had sold Joseph into slavery. It is, however, pro...
Genesis 50:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joseph Loves until His Death Genesis 50:15-26 The fear of Joseph's brethren illustrates the insecurity of a position which is conceded only at the bidding of the tender caprice of love, apart f...
Genesis 50:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. T...
Genesis 50:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How sweet to this purpose are those gospel precepts, and how much the influence of them, arising from the same Almighty SPIRIT'S gift, was on the mind of Joseph! Colossians 3:12-13 ; Matthew 6:12-1...
Genesis 50:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they sent a messenger unto Joseph ,.... Not Bilhah, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, nor her sons, Dan and Naphtali, as Jarchi, grounding it on Genesis 37:1 though it is not improbabl...
Genesis 50:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, Ver. 16. Thy father did command, &c. ] It is a just question, whether there were ever a true word...
Genesis 50:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joseph will peradventure hate us While their father lived, they thought themselves safe under his shadow; but now he was dead, they feared the worst. A guilty conscience exposeth men to continual f...
Genesis 50:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JACOB'S BURIAL (vs.1-14) The sorrow of Joseph over his father's death is seen in verse 1. It is an interesting study to consider the times in which Joseph is recorded as weeping. In contrast to b...
Genesis 50:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joseph Comforts His Brethren. B. C. 1689. 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their f...
Genesis 50:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This looks like a lie; for Jacob either did not know this fact, or rather, was so well assured of Joseph's clemency and goodness, that he never feared his revenge. But guilt doth so awaken fear, that...
Genesis 50:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Brothers Fear For Their Lives on the Death of Jacob (50:14-21 ). The prime purpose of this section is not so much to deal with the brothers' fears with respect to Joseph as to stress that all...
Genesis 50:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:15 . Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering is— If Joseph should now punish us , a...
Genesis 50:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:2 . The physicians embalmed Israel. The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by...
Genesis 50:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Forgive The message of his brethren to Joseph: The death of great characters being often followed by great changes; conscious guilt being always alive to fear; and the chasm which succeeds a fu...
Genesis 50:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 50:15 And when (literally and ) Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they (literally, and they) said, Joseph will peradventure hate us,— literally,...
Genesis 50:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joseph Reassures his Brothers
Genesis 50:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

sent. Heb. charged. Proverbs 29:25
Genesis 50:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thy father did command — Thus in humbling ourselves to Christ by faith and repentance, we may plead that it is the command of his father and our father we should do so.

Genesis 50:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Genesis 50:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 50:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 50:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 50:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 50:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 50:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes