Genesis 50:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I die - or, 'I am dying.' The national feelings of the Egyptians would have been opposed to his burial in Canaan; and therefore he said nothing regarding his immediate interment; but he gave the strongest proof of the strength of his faith and full assurance of the promises by "the commandment concerning his bones" (Hebrews 11:22). It is evident from his dying injunction, that he had not allowed himself to be so immersed with the politics, the honours, or the pleasures of a foreign and a pagan capital as to obliterate the memory of, or shake his faith in, the divine promises to Israel.