genesis-47:22-49:33-niv

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:22

‘Only the land of the priests he did not buy. For the priests had a portion from Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them, and for that reason they did not sell their land.’ The priests were powerful and influential. Furthermore they were provided with their food by Pharaoh. Thus they did not need to sell their land and remained semi-independent. We know that in the later so-called New Kingdom this was so. The extensive Temple lands were not formally included in Pharaoh’s right of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:13-26

Genesis 47:13-Ezekiel : . Joseph Takes Advantage of the Famine to Secure for the Crown the Money, the Cattle, and the Lands of the Egyptians.— If this belongs to one of the main documents, J is the most probable. But it may be an independent piece. It is an æ tiological story (p. 134). The system of land tenure in Egypt must have struck the Hebrews as strange; they accounted for it in this way. The system is not attested in the inscriptions, but there is confirmatory evidence, and it probably... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 47:22

The priests: under this name he understands chiefly those who administered the worship of the gods or idols of Egypt, and withal those who applied themselves to the study of the arts and virtues, called their wise men and magicians; though some understand it of the princes (as that word sometimes signifies) or officers of Pharaoh, who were nourished out of the king’s treasures. And possibly the same Hebrew word may here comprehend both, viz. the ministers of the king, and of their idols too,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 47:13-26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 47:21. He removed them to cities.] Heb.—According to the cities. “Thus he distributed the population of the land in and around the cities according to the cities in which the grain was stored, so as to produce the easiest distribution of the supplies among them.” (Jacobus.)—Genesis 47:22. Only the land of the priests bought he not.] “The Egyptian priesthood was already placed by Pharaoh upon an independent and separate basis. Wilkinson shows from the monuments that only... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 47:1-31

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the forty-seventh chapter of Genesis?Joseph has been sold by his brothers as a slave to the traders going to Egypt. In Egypt he is resold and purchased by a man named Potiphar who was the chief captain of the Pharaoh's guard. God prospered him and blessed him in Potiphar's house. Potiphar's house was blessed because of Joseph's being there. He made Joseph the head over everything he had. But Potiphar's wife set her eye upon Joseph, sought to seduce him. When... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 47:1-31

Genesis 47:2. Some of his brethren. ומקצה vemi-ketzeh extremitate, as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2, when describing the five valiant and enterprising Danites. Genesis 47:8. How old art thou? Pharaoh appears to have been struck with Jacob’s gray hairs, and venerable appearance. His troubles had probably made him look older than he really was. Genesis 47:10. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, being a patriarch,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 47:13-26

Genesis 47:13-26Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the Land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s houseThe morality of Joseph’s administrationThe significance of the transaction is obvious; it brought men back to first principles; made them feel, in a very practical way, their absolute dependence on God, and on that one man through whom God was pleased to deal with them.But what are we to think about its... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 47:22

Gen 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. Ver. 22. Only the land of the priests bought he not. ] Ministers’ maintenance, we see, is of the law of nature. Jezebel provided for her priests; Micah for his Levite. "Do ye not know," saith that great apostle, "that they which minister about holy things, live of the things of the temple? and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 47:22

of the priests: or, princes, Genesis 14:18, Genesis 41:45, Genesis 41:50, *marg. 2 Samuel 8:18 for the priests: Deuteronomy 12:19, Joshua 21:1-Romans :, Ezra 7:24, Nehemiah 13:10, Matthew 10:10, 1 Corinthians 9:13, Galatians 6:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 1 Timothy 5:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 47:26 - made it a law read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 47:22

22. Land of the priests bought he not Pharaoh’s reverence for the ministers of religion would not allow an alienation of their land from them . Their portion which Pharaoh gave them During the years of famine he ordered them to be supplied from the public treasury, without money and without price . This is represented as Pharaoh’s act rather than Joseph’s . The latter, of course, would not interfere . He had married the daughter of one of the priests . But the sacred writer clearly... read more