Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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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

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

28. And Jacob lived. It was no common source of temptation to the holy old man, to be an exile from the land of Canaan, for so many years. Be...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the la...
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...
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

It is somewhat remarkable that Jacob lost Joseph at the age of seventeen: and now the LORD grants the same number of years for them to be together. T...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years ,.... He lived just the same term of years with Joseph in Egypt as he had lived with him in Syr...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. Ver. 28. Jacob lived in the...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jacob lived seventeen years after he came into Egypt, far beyond his own expectation: seventeen years he had nourished Joseph, for so old he was when...
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

Jacob's Charge Concerning His Burial. B. C. 1706....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1689 No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Family Tribe Prosper - Jacob's Plea ( Genesis 47:27-31 ) Genesis 47:27 ‘And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Scofield Reference Notes

whole age Or, days of the years of his life.
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

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen The children of Israel in Goshen I. THEIR QUIET POSSESSION OF THE LAND. 1. T...
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 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so long the Lord permitted him to share the happiness of his children; so the whole age of Jac...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 2315. B.C. 1689. seventeen. Genesis 37:2 the whole age. Heb. the days of the years of his life. Genesis 47:8 Genesis 47:9 Psalms 90:10...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jacob lived seventeen years after he came into Egypt, far beyond his own expectation: seventeen years he had nourished Joseph, for so old he was wh...

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 47:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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

Scofield Reference Notes

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 47:28