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9561 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.2 (Matthew Henry)

… son Joseph, yet such an affection he had for a loving father, and so sensible was he of the loss of a prudent, pious, praying father, that he could not part with him …

9562 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.3 (Matthew Henry)

… to Joseph, showed this respect to his father for his sake, and did him honour at his death. Though the Egyptians had had an antipathy to the Hebrews, and had looked …

9563 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.4 (Matthew Henry)

… between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country; yet …

9564 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.5 (Matthew Henry)

I. Joseph’s brethren humbly make their court to him for his favour. 1. They began to be jealous of Joseph, not that he had given them any cause to be so, but the consciousness …

9565 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.6 (Matthew Henry)

II. Joseph, with a great deal of compassion, confirms his reconciliation and affection to them; his compassion appears, Genesis 50:17. He wept when they spoke …

9566 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.7 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph’s life in Egypt: he lived to be a hundred and ten years old, Genesis 50:22. Having honoured his father, his days were long in the land which, for the present …

9567 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.8 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph’s family: he lived to see his great-grand-children by both his sons ( Genesis 50:23 ), and probably he saw his two sons solemnly owned as heads of distinct …

9568 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.9 (Matthew Henry)

… ; but Joseph prefers a significant burial in Canaan, and that deferred too almost 200 years, before a magnificent one in Egypt. Thus Joseph, by faith in the doctrine …

9569 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.10 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph, and the reservation of his body for a burial in Canaan, Genesis 50:26. He was put in a coffin in Egypt, but not buried till his children had received their …

9570 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 52.2 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph, Exodus 1:6. All that generation by degrees wore off. Perhaps all Jacob’s sons died much about the same time; for there was not more than seven years …

9571 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 52.4 (Matthew Henry)

… upon Joseph’s account were forgotten: There arose a new king, after several successions in Joseph’s time, who knew not Joseph, Exodus 1:8. All that knew him loved …

9572 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 58.3 (Matthew Henry)

… :7. Joseph, who was to be only a servant to Pharaoh, was preferred at thirty years old; but Moses, who was to be a god to Pharaoh, was not so dignified until he was eighty …

9573 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 58.4 (Matthew Henry)

… since Joseph put them all to shame, by interpreting a dream which they could make nothing of, in remembrance of which slur put on their predecessors these …

9574 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 64.1 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph’s bones, Exodus 13:19 .

9575 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 64.10 (Matthew Henry)

… think, “Joseph’s bones must rest at last, and then we shall.” Moses is said to take these bones with him. Moses was now a very great man; so had Joseph been in his day …

9576 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 79.7 (Matthew Henry)

… in Joseph. Aaron was to bear their names for a memorial before the Lord continually, being ordained for men, to represent them in things pertaining to God, herein …

9577 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 119.8 (Matthew Henry)

… of Joseph, are numbered as distinct tribes, and both together made up almost as many as Judah; this was in pursuance of Jacob’s adoption of them, by which they …

9578 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 120.2 (Matthew Henry)

… man, Joseph an ox, and Dan an eagle, making the appearances in Ezekiel’s vision to allude it. Others say the name of each tribe was written in its standard. Whatever …

9579 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 124.2 (Matthew Henry)

… been. Joseph is called a Nazarite among his brethren ( Genesis 49:26 ), not only because separate from them, but because eminent among them. Observe,

9580 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 128.4 (Matthew Henry)

… leadeth Joseph like a flock has a tender regard to the hindmost ( Ezekiel 34:16 ), that cannot keep pace with the rest, and of all that are given him he will lose none …