Genesis 50:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. ”

Genesis 50:2 - 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 50:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Joseph commanded his servants the (a) physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. (a) He means those who embalmed the dead and buried them.
Genesis 50:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 49:28 b - Genesis 50:13 . Death and Burial of Jacob. Genesis 49:28 b - Genesis 49:33 ; Genesis 50:12 f . are in the main from P; Genesis 50:1-11 in the main from J. The d...
Genesis 50:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. And Joseph commanded his servants. Although formerly more labor was expended on funerals, and that even without superstition, than has been deemed right subsequently to the proof given of...
Genesis 50:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. The physicians - רפאים ropheim, the healers, those whose business it was to heal or restore...
Genesis 50:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His servants the physicians— The profession of physic appears to have been carried on in ancient times by domestics; and Joseph, as viceroy of AEgypt, may well be supposed to have kept some of thes...
Genesis 50:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. In ancient Egypt,...
Genesis 50:2 - 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 50:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

L. BURIAL OF JACOB, AND HAPPY OLD AGE OF JOSEPH. (2) The physicians embalmed Israel. — The command given first by Jacob to Joseph ( Genesis 47:29-30 ), and then urged earnestly upon all his sons...
Genesis 50:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob's Last Directions and Death Genesis 49:28-33 ; Genesis 50:1-3 Jacob gave a final charge as to his burial in Machpelah-that his dust at least should be there to welcome his children and c...
Genesis 50:2 - 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 50:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is an humbling view of our poor nature which death makes. The tenderest friend must then say as Abraham did, Genesis 33:4 .
Genesis 50:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father ,.... Which he did, not merely because it was the custom of the Egyptians, but because it was necessary, his father's corpse b...
Genesis 50:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. Ver. 2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians. ] Physicians, a it seems, wer...
Genesis 50:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time. “Embalming...
Genesis 50:2 - 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 50:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Burial of Jacob. B. C. 1689. 1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon...
Genesis 50:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The dead corpse of his father with spices, and ointments, and other things necessary for the preservation of the body from putrefaction as long as might be. This Joseph did, partly, because he would...
Genesis 50:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Burial of Jacob In Canaan (50:1-13). Genesis 50:1-3 ‘And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his f...
Genesis 50:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:2 . The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.— Genesis 50:3 . Mourned for him three score...
Genesis 50:2 - 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 50:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father The honour paid to the departed Jacob: I. PRIVATE. 1. The tears of his family. 2. The respect paid to last wishes. II....
Genesis 50:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his revered and beloved parent, as God had promis...
Genesis 50:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Mourning for Jacob
Genesis 50:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

the physicians. embalmed. Genesis 50:26 2 Chronicles 16:14 Matthew 26:12 Mark 14:8 Mark 16:1 Luke 24:1 John 12:7 John 19:39 John 19:40
Genesis 50:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time.

Genesis 50:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 50:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 50:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 50:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 50:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 50:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes