Genesis 50:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourneda for him threescore and ten days. ”

Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him (b) threescore and ten days. (b) They were more excessive in lamen...
Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. And forty days were fulfilled for him. We have shown already that Moses is speaking of a ceremonial mourning; and therefore he does not prescribe it as a law, or produce it as an example w...
Genesis 50:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. Forty days - The body it appears required...
Genesis 50:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And forty days were fulfilled for him— The reader will find, in the first volume of Univ. Hist. 8vo. p. 489, a minute account of the manner of embalming, which was done without disfiguring the body...
Genesis 50:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. Forty days were fulfilled for him....
Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Forty days. — Herodotus (ii. 86) describes the process of embalming as occupying seventy days, but he was speaking of what he saw at Thebes, whereas Memphis was the Egyptian capital in Joseph’s tim...
Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John 19:39-40 It is proper to pay tokens of respect to our deceased friends, but do not forget what JESUS hath said: Matthew 8:22 .
Genesis 50:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Forty days were fulfilled for him ,.... Were spent in embalming him: for so are fulfilled the days of those that are embalmed ; so long the body lay in the pickle, in ointment of cedar, myrrh and...
Genesis 50:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. Ver. 3. And the Egyptians mourned for h...
Genesis 50:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Forty days were fulfilled for him That is, for embalming him, this time being, at the least, requisite to go through the process. But according to Herodotus, the body often remained at the embalmer...
Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For him, i.e. for his embalming; that so the drugs or spices which were applied might more effectually reach to all the parts of the dead body, and keep it from corruption. And the effect of their...
Genesis 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - 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 50:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Mourning for Jacob
Genesis 50:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

forty days. mourned. Heb. wept. three-score. Numbers 20:29 Deuteronomy 21:13 Deuteronomy 34:8
Genesis 50:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He observed the ceremony of solemn mourning for him. Forty days were taken up in embalming the body, which the Egyptians had an art of doing so curiously, as to preserve the very features of the fa...

Genesis 50:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 50:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 50:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 50:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 50:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 50:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 50:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 50:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes