Genesis 47:20

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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.” Arrange...
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 m...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. And Joseph bought all the land. Any one might suppose it to be the height of cruel and inexplicable avarice, that Joseph should take away...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of t...
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 super...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So the land became Pharaoh’s. — Joseph has been accused of reducing a free people to slavery by his policy. Undoubtedly he did vastly increase the...
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 prince...
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...
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 posi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 18:21 These verses are a digression from the history of the Patriarchs, and serve only to manifest the wisdom and prudence in Joseph's gove...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ,.... Not for himself, nor did he entail it on his posterity, but for Pharaoh, who became sole p...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land...
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 whi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Distressed Occasioned by the Famine. B. C. 1706....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And when that year ended they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how that our silver is all spent, and the...
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 a...
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 i...
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 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 claus...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Consequences of the Severe Famine.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; so the land...
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²⁰ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 47:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 47:20