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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Genesis 46

Chapter 46

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

A. M. 2298. B.C. 1706. Beer-sheba

21:14,31,33 26:22,23 28:10 1 Samuel 3:20

and offered

4:4 8:20 12:8 22:13 33:20 35:3,7 Job 1:5 42:8

unto

21:33 26:23,25 28:13 31:42,53

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

in the visions

15:1,13 22:11 Numbers 12:6 24:4 2 Chronicles 26:5 Job 4:13 33:14,15 Daniel 2:19 Acts 9:10 10:3 16:9

Jacob

22:1 Exodus 3:3,4 1 Samuel 3:4,10 Acts 9:4 10:13

And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

the God

28:13

fear not

15:1,13 26:2,3 Isaiah 41:10 43:1,2 Jeremiah 40:9 Acts 27:24

I will

12:2 13:15,16 18:18 22:17 28:14 35:11 47:27 Exodus 1:7-10 Deuteronomy 1:10 Deuteronomy 10:22 26:5 Acts 7:17

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

will go

28:15 48:21 Isaiah 43:1,2

and I will

15:14-16 50:5,13,24,25 Exodus 3:8

and Joseph

This last and most solemn office, as Mr. Hewlett observes, that could be paid to a parent, was generally performed by the nearest relation of the deceased. This promise must have given great consolation to the venerable patriarch's mind.

50:1

And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Jacob

Acts 7:15

in the waggons

31:17,18 45:19,21,27 Exodus 10:24,26

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

into Egypt

15:13 Numbers 20:15 Deuteronomy 10:22 26:5 Joshua 24:4 1 Samuel 12:8 Psalms 105:23 Isaiah 52:4 Acts 7:15

And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

the names

29:1-30 35:23 49:1-33 Exodus 1:1-5 6:14-18 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 8:1-40

Reuben

29:32 35:22,23 49:3,4 Exodus 6:14 Numbers 1:5,20,21 2:10-13 26:5-11 Deuteronomy 33:6 1 Chronicles 2:1-10

And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

Simeon

29:33 34:25,30 49:5-7 Exodus 6:15 Numbers 1:6,22,23 2:12,13 26:12,13 1 Chronicles 2:1 4:24-43

Jemuel

or, Nemuel.

Jachin

or, Jarib.

Zohar

or, Zerah.

1 Chronicles 4:24

Canaanitish

28:1

And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Levi

29:34 49:5-7 Exodus 6:16 Numbers 3:17-22 4:1-49 8:1-26 26:57,58 Deuteronomy 33:8-11 1 Chronicles 2:1,11,16 6:1-3 22:1-26

Gershon

or, Gershom.

1 Chronicles 6:16

And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

Judah

29:35 38:1-3,7,10,24-30 49:8-12 Numbers 1:7,26,27 26:19-21 Deuteronomy 33:7 Judges 1:2 1 Chronicles 2:1,3-5 3:1-24 4:1,21 5:2 Psalms 78:68 Matthew 1:1-3 Hebrews 7:14 Revelation 5:5

And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

Issachar

30:14-18 35:23 49:14,15 Numbers 1:8,28-30 26:23-25 Deuteronomy 33:18 1 Chronicles 2:1 7:1-5 12:32

Phuvah

or, Puah.

Job

or, Jashub.

1 Chronicles 7:1

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

Zebulun

30:19,20 49:13 Numbers 1:9,30,31 26:26,27 Deuteronomy 33:18,19 1 Chronicles 2:1

These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

Leah

29:32-35 30:17-21 35:23 49:3-15 Exodus 1:2,3 Numbers 1:1-54 10:1-36 Numbers 26:1-65 1 Chronicles 2:1

Padanaram

25:20

with his

30:21 34:1-31

And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

sons of

30:11 35:26 49:19 Numbers 1:11,24,25 26:15-17 Deuteronomy 33:20,21 1 Chronicles 2:2 1 Chronicles 5:11-16

Ziphion

or, Zephon.

Ezbon

or, Ozni.

Arodi

or, Arod.

Numbers 26:15-17

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

Asher

30:13 35:26 49:20 Numbers 1:13,40,41 26:44-46 Deuteronomy 33:24 1 Chronicles 2:2 1 Chronicles 7:30-40

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

Zilpah

29:24 30:9-13 35:26 Exodus 1:4

The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

Rachel

29:18 30:24 35:16-18,24 44:27 Exodus 1:3,5 1 Chronicles 2:2

Joseph

37:1-36 39:1-23 40:1-45 47:1-31 49:22-27 50:1-14 Numbers 1:36,37 26:38-41 Deuteronomy 33:12-17

And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

Manasseh

41:50-52 48:4,5,13,14,20 Numbers 1:32-35 26:28-37 Deuteronomy 33:13-17 1 Chronicles 5:23-26 7:14-29

priest

or, prince.

41:45,50 *marg:

And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

the sons

49:27 Numbers 1:11,36,37 Deuteronomy 33:12 1 Chronicles 7:6-12 8:1-7

Ehi

Numbers 26:38

Ahiram

Muppim.

Numbers 26:39

Shupham

1 Chronicles 7:12

Shuppim

Huppim.

Numbers 26:39

Hupham

Verse 23

And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

Dan

30:6 35:25 49:16,17 Numbers 1:12,38,39 10:25 Deuteronomy 33:22 1 Chronicles 2:2 7:12 1 Chronicles 12:35

Hushim

Numbers 26:42,43

Shuham

Verse 24

And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

Naphtali

30:7,8 35:25 49:21 Numbers 1:15,42,43 26:48-50 Deuteronomy 33:23 2 Kings 15:29 1 Chronicles 2:2 12:34

Jahzeel

1 Chronicles 7:13

Jahziel

Verse 25

These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

Bilhah

29:29 30:3-8 35:22,25 Exodus 1:2

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

loins

Heb. thigh.

35:11 Exodus 1:5 Judges 8:30

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

threescore and ten

Threescore and six were before mentioned, (ver. 26,) so that Joseph and his two sons, together with Jacob himself, complete the seventy persons here enumerated; and the number in ver. 15, 18, 22, and 25 amount to that number. The addition of five persons in the LXX. in ver. 20, was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five ver. 15, 18, 22, 25.

Exodus 1:5 24:1 Deuteronomy 10:22 Acts 7:14

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Judah

43:8 44:16-34 49:8

to direct

31:21

Goshen

Goshen seems to have been a city, after which the land of Goshen was called. The LXX. render it by [Heroonpolis] Heroonpolis, "city of Heroon;" which by some writers is simply called Heroum, and is by the ancient geographers placed in the eastern part of Egypt, not far from the Arabian Gulf.

34 45:10 47:1

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

his chariot

41:43 45:19,21

fell on

33:4 45:14 Luke 15:20 Acts 20:37

And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

45:28 Luke 2:29,30

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

45:16-20 47:1-3 Acts 18:3 Hebrews 2:11

And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

shepherds

4:2 31:18 37:2 47:3 Exodus 3:1 1 Samuel 16:11 17:15 Psalms 78:70-72 Isaiah 40:11 Zechariah 13:5

their trade hath been to feed cattle

Heb. they are men of cattle.

34 9:20 1 Kings 9:27 18:5,6

and they

45:10

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

What is

32 47:2-4 Jonah 1:8

That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Thy servants

32 30:35 34:5 37:12

for every

From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call hycassos, or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.

43:32 Exodus 8:26