Genesis 47:31

Swear. Genesis 24:3 And Israel bowed. Genesis 47:29 Genesis 24:26 Genesis 48:1 Genesis 48:2 1 Kings 1:47 Hebrews 11:21

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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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel (k) bowed himself upon the bed's head. (k) He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, a...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 47:27 to Genesis 48:22 . Jacob Extracts an Oath that Joseph will Bury him in Canaan, and Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh. Genesis 47:22...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

31. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head. By this expression, Moses again affirms that Jacob esteemed it a singular kindness, that hi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head - Jacob...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bowed himself upon the bed's head— The Septuagint and Syriac versions render this, Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff; and I see no sort...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bowed himself upon the bed's head ] perhaps better, 'worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff,' as in Hebrews 11:21 . The Hebrew words for 'bed'...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head. — The LXX., followed by the Epistle to the Hebrews ( Genesis 11:21 ) and the Syriac, read, “on the top of...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joseph Visits His Dying Father Genesis 47:27-31 ; Genesis 48:1-7 How inexorable is the must of death! For many years Jacob had exceeded the...
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

May we not spiritualize this promise confirmed by an oath? Doth not JESUS in effect promise the same, to all his people. John 11:25-26 ; Hosea 13:1...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said, swear unto me ,.... This he required, not from any distrust of Joseph, but to show his own eagerness, and the intenseness of his mind a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. Ver. 31. And Israel bowed himself. ] In way of th...
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

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Israel bowed himself, not to Joseph, who being now not upon his throne, nor amongst the Egyptians, but in his father's house, was doubtless more re...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was (literally, the days of Jac...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joseph's Promise to Jacob
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. He was apparently sitting up on his couch and leanin...

³¹ And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 47:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 47:31