TSK - GENESIS 47

  1  Joseph presents his father, and five of his brethren before
    Pharaoh.
11  He gives them habitation and maintenance.
13  He gets the Egyptians' money;
16  their cattle;
18  and their lands, except the priests', to Pharaoh.
23  He restores the land for a fifth.
28  Jacob's age.
29  He swears Joseph to bury him with his fathers.


VERSE 1
- Joseph.
   * Ge 45:16; 46:31 Heb 2:11
- in the land.
   * Ge 45:10; 46:28,34 Ex 8:22; 9:26


VERSE 2 
 - presented.
   * Ac 7:13 2Co 4:14 Col 1:28 Jude 1:24


VERSE 3 
 - What is.
   * Ge 46:33,34 Am 7:14,15 Jon 1:8 2Th 3:10
- shepherds.
   * Ge 4:2


VERSE 4 
 - For to.
   * Ge 12:10; 15:13 De 26:5 Ps 105:23 Isa 52:4 Ac 7:6
- for the famine.
   * Ge 43:1 Ac 7:11
- let thy.
   * Ge 46:34

VERSE 5


VERSE 6 
 - is.
   * :11; 13:9; 20:15; 34:10; 45:18-20 Pr 21:1 Joh 17:2
- Goshen.
   * :4,11
- men of activity.
  {Anshey chayil,} men of strength, power, ability, or prowess.
  It implies both fitness of mind and body; and so valour,
  prudence, diligence, and virtue.

- rulers.
   * Ex 18:21 1Sa 21:7 1Ch 27:29-31 2Ch 26:10 Pr 22:29
- cattle
  {Mikneh}, from {kanah}, to posses, signifies property or
  possession of any kind, though it frequently is used for
  cattle, because in ancient times they constituted the
  principal part of a man's possessions.

- See ver.
   * :16 Ex 9:3-6,10,21


VERSE 7 
 - And Jacob.
   * :10; 35:27 Ex 12:32 Nu 6:23,24 Jos 14:13 1Sa 2:20 2Sa 8:10
   * 2Sa 19:39 1Ki 1:47 2Ki 4:29 Mt 26:26 Lu 22:19 1Pe 2:17


VERSE 8 
 - How old art thou.  Heb. How many are the days of the years of
  thy life?
   * :9


VERSE 9 
 - The days.
   * 1Ch 29:15 Ps 39:12; 119:19,54 2Co 5:6 Heb 11:9-16; 13:14
   * 1Pe 2:11
- and hundred.
   * Job 14:1 Ps 39:5; 89:47,48; 90:3-12 Jas 4:14
- have not.
   * :28; 5:27; 11:11,24,25; 25:7,8; 35:28; 50:26 Ex 6:4; 7:7 De 34:7
   * Jos 24:29 2Sa 19:32-35 Job 8:8,9; 42:16,17

VERSE 10
    * :7; 14:19 Nu 6:23-27 De 33:1 Ru 2:4 2Sa 8:10; 19:39 Ps 119:46
   * Ps 129:8 Heb 7:7


VERSE 11 
 - Rameses.
   * :6 Ex 1:11; 12:37 Joh 10:10,28; 14:2,23; 17:2,24


VERSE 12 
 - nourished.
   * Ru 4:15
- his father.
   * Ex 20:12 Mt 15:4-6 Mr 7:10-13 1Ti 4:8; 5:4,8
- according to their families.  or, as a little child is
  nourished.  Heb. according to the little ones.
   * :1,21,24 1Th 2:7


VERSE 13 
 - A.M. 2300.  B.C. 1704.  so that.
   * Ge 41:30,31 1Ki 18:5 Jer 14:1-6 La 2:19,20; 4:9 Ac 7:11
- fainted.
   * Jer 9:12 Joe 1:10-12


VERSE 14 
 - the money.
   * Ge 41:56
- Joseph brought.
   * Lu 16:1,2,10-12 1Co 4:2 1Pe 4:10


VERSE 15 
 - A.M. 2301. B.C. 1703.  Give us bread.
   * :18,19,24 Jud 8:5,8 1Sa 21:3; 25:8 Ps 37:3 Isa 33:16 Mt 6:11


VERSE 16 
 - Give your cattle.
  This was the wisest measure that could be adopted, both for
  the preservation of the people and the cattle.  As the people
  had not grain for their own sustenance, consequently they
  could have none for their cattle:  hence they were in the
  most imminent danger of starving; and the people also were in
  equal danger; as they must have divided a portion of that
  bought for themselves with the cattle, which, for the sake of
  tillage, etc., they wished of course to preserve till the
  seven years' famine should end.

   * Da 6:5-7 Pr 12:17 1Co 10:32 Php 4:8 Col 4:5


VERSE 17 
 - for horses.
   * Ex 9:3 1Ki 10:28 Job 2:4 Isa 31:1 Mt 6:24
- fed them.  Heb. led them.


VERSE 18 
 - A.M. 2302.  B.C. 1702.
   * 2Ki 6:26 Jer 38:9


VERSE 19 
 - buy us.
   * Ne 5:2,3 Job 2:4 La 1:11; 5:6,9 Mt 16:26 Php 3:8,9
- and give.  See on ver.
   * :23

VERSE 20


VERSE 21 
 - A.M. 2303.  B.C. 1701.
- And as.
  It is highly probable, that Joseph was influenced by no
  political motive in removing the people to the cities, but
  merely by motives of prudence and humanity; for, as the corn
  was laid up in the cities, it would be more eligible to bring
  then from distant towns and villages to places where they
  might be more conveniently supplied with food.

- to cities.
   * Ge 41:48


VERSE 22 
 - of the priests.  or, princes.
   * Ge 14:18; 41:45,50 *marg:
   * 2Sa 8:18
- for the priests.
   * De 12:19 Jos 21:1-45 Ezr 7:24 Ne 13:10 Mt 10:10 1Co 9:13
   * Ga 6:6 2Th 3:10 1Ti 5:17


VERSE 23 
 - bought.
   * :19
- here is seed.
   * Ge 41:27; 45:6 Ps 41:1; 107:36,37; 112:5 Pr 11:26; 12:11; 13:23
   * Ec 11:6 Isa 28:24,25; 55:10 Mt 24:45 2Co 9:10


VERSE 24 
 - the fifth part.
   * :25; 41:34 Le 27:32 1Sa 8:15-17 Ps 41:1; 112:5


VERSE 25 
 - Thou hast.
   * Ge 6:19; 41:45 *marg:
   * Ge 45:6-8; 50:20 Pr 11:26,27
- let us.
   * Ge 18:3; 33:15 Ru 2:13


VERSE 26 
 - made it a law.
  From this history, and from Diodorus Siculus (lib. i.), we
  learn that the land of Egypt was divided into three parts:
  one belonged to the Priests, (ver. 22, 26;) a second was the
  king's, (which appears to have been the land of Rameses, or
  Goshen, ver. 11;) the remainder was the subjects'.  Now
  Joseph, having purchased the land of the people (ver. 19,
  20), restored it, on the condition of their paying a fifth
  part of the produce to the king, beyond which he appears to
  have made no demand.

- except.
   * :22 Eze 7:24
- priests.  or, princes.  See ver.
   * :22


VERSE 27 
 - dwelt.
   * :11
- grew.
   * Ge 8:7,9; 13:16; 26:4; 28:14; 46:3 Ex 1:7,12 De 10:22; 26:5 Ne 9:23
   * Ps 105:24; 107:38 Zec 10:8 Ac 7:17


VERSE 28 
 - A.M. 2315.  B.C. 1689.  seventeen.
   * Ge 37:2
- the whole age.  Heb. the days of the years of his life.
   * :8 *marg:
   * :9 Ps 90:10,12; 119:84


VERSE 29 
 - must die.
   * :9; 3:19; 50:24 De 31:14 2Sa 7:12; 14:14 1Ki 2:1 Job 7:1
   * Job 14:14; 30:23 Ps 6:5; 49:7,9; 89:48 Heb 9:27
- put.  See on ch.
   * Ge 24:2
- deal kindly.
   * Ge 24:49
- bury me not.
   * Ge 50:24,25 Ac 7:15,16 Heb 11:22

VERSE 30
    * Ge 23:19; 25:9; 49:29-32; 50:5-14,25 2Sa 19:37 1Ki 13:22 Ne 2:3,5


VERSE 31 
 - Swear.
   * Ge 24:3
- And Israel bowed.
  As {shachah,} which primarily signifies to bow, denotes also
  to worship; and as {mittah,} a bed, pronounced {matteh,} is a
  staff; the LXX. have taken the passage in the latter sense,
  and rendered it [                                          ,]
  "and Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff," which is
  literally copied by the apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the
  Hebrews.  The present reading is, however, supported by the
  Masoretic pointing and the Targums; and is most probably
  correct, as it would appear that Jacob was confined to his
  bed.

- See on ver.
   * :29; 24:26; 48:1,2 1Ki 1:47 Heb 11:21



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