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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And his brethren also went,.... The messengers being returned to them, and acquainting them with what Joseph had said, they took courage and went from Goshen to Joseph's house or palace, be it where it may: and fell down before his face; in an humble suppliant manner: and they said, behold, we be thy servants; they were content to be so, would he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph said unto them, fear not,.... That any hurt would be done by him to them, or that he would use them ill for their treatment of him: for am I in the place of God? to receive such homage from you, that you should be my servants, as Saadiah Gaon gives the sense; or rather to take vengeance for injury done, which belongs to God alone: or,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as for you, ye thought evil against me,.... That must be said and owned, that their intentions were bad; they thought to have contradicted his dreams, and made them of none effect, to have token away his life, or however to have made him a slave all his days: [but] God meant it unto good; he designed good should come by it, and he brought good...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now therefore, fear ye not,.... Which, is repeated to dispossess them of every fear they might entertain of him on any account whatever: I will nourish you, and your little ones; provide food for them, and their families, not only for themselves and their sons, now grown up, but their grandchildren and even the youngest and latest of their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house,.... Comfortably, quietly, and in great prosperity, not only he, but his brethren and their families, as long as he lived: and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years; and all but seventeen of them in Egypt, for at that age it was when he was brought thither: thirteen years he lived in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation,.... His great grandchildren's children; and which shows, as most interpreters observe, that Jacob's prediction, that Ephraim should be the greatest and most numerous, very early began to take place: and the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die,.... Some time before his death he called them together, and observed to them, that he expected to die in a little time, as all must: and God will surely visit you; not in a way of wrath and vindictive justice, as he sometimes does, but in a way of love, grace, and mercy: and bring you out of this land; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,.... Not of his brethren only, but of their posterity, as many of them as were now grown up, that so it might be communicated from one to another, and become well known to that generation which should depart out of Egypt: saying, God will surely visit you; which he repeats for the certainty of it,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old,.... The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor (x), from Demetrius an Heathen. The Jewish writers (y) say, that he died the first of the twelve patriarchs, though he was the youngest of them; he died, according to Bishop Usher (z), in the year of the world 2369, and before Christ 1635: and they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 1 This chapter begins with an account of the names and number of the children of Israel that came into Egypt with Jacob, Exodus 1:1 and relates that increase of them after the death of Joseph, and the generation that went down to Egypt, Exodus 1:6 and what methods the Egyptians took to diminish them, but to no purpose, as by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now these are the names of the children of Israel which came down into Egypt,.... Of the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob, who were heads of the twelve tribes, whose names are here given; since the historian is about to give an account of their coming out of Egypt, and that it might be observed how greatly they increased in it, and how exactly...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The Israelites Oppressed in Egypt. (b. c. 1588.) 1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. The first sons of Jacob by Leah.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Issachar, Zebulun,.... The other two sons of Jacob, by Leah: Benjamin; the youngest of all Jacob's sons is placed here, being his son by his beloved wife Rachel. Joseph is not put into the account, because he did not go into Egypt with Jacob.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. Who are last mentioned, being sons of the concubine wives.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls,.... "Souls" are put for persons; of the number seventy, and how reckoned, [See comments on Genesis 46:27]. This was but a small number that went down to Egypt, when compared with that which went out of it; and that it should be compared with it is the design of its being...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Joseph died, and all his brethren,.... It is a notion of the Jews, that Joseph died before any of his brethren, [See comments on Genesis 50:26] and they gather it from these words; but it does not necessarily follow from hence, they might die some before him and some after him; and as they were all born in about seven years' time, excepting...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the children of Israel were fruitful,.... In their offspring; became like fruitful trees, as the word signifies: and increased abundantly; like creeping things, or rather like fishes, which increase very much, see Genesis 1:20 and multiplied; became very numerous, whereby the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were fulfilled: and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt,.... Stephen calls him another king, Acts 7:18 one of another family, according to Josephus (g); who was not of the seed royal, as Aben Ezra; and Sir John Marsham (h) thinks this was Salatis, who, according to Manetho (i), was the first of the Hycsi or pastor kings that ruled in lower Egypt; but these kings...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto his people,.... His princes, nobles, and courtiers about him, his principal ministers of state: behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: which could not be true in fact, but is said to stir up his nobles to attend to what he was about to say, and to work upon them to take some speedy measures for...