All his daughters; Dinah, and his daughters-in-law, and his sons daughters. The grave; this Hebrew word sheol is taken sometimes for hell, as Job 11:8 Proverbs 15:11, but most commonly for the grave, or the place or state of the dead, as Genesis 42:38, Genesis 44:29,31 Psa 6:5 16:10, &c. And whether of those it signifies, must be determined by the subject and the circumstances of the place. Here it cannot be meant of hell, for Jacob neither could believe that good Joseph was there, nor would have resolved to go thither; but the sense is, I will kill myself with grief, or I will never leave mourning till I die. Unto my son; or, for my son: so the preposition el is oft used for al, as 1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 4:19,21,22 2 Samuel 21:2.
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Genesis 37:35
35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.