Genesis Chapter 50
A. Jacob is buried in Canaan.
1. (1-3) Jacob is embalmed and mourned.
Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Embalming required forty days! The Egyptians mourned for Jacob seventy days—two and a half months—just two days short of the normal time of mourning for a Pharaoh. This showed the great respect the Egyptians had for Joseph
a. Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him: The passing of Jacob in the presence of his sons was a deeply moving and dramatic scene.
b. The Egyptians mourned him seventy days: Jacob was mourned for 70 days among the whole nation of Egypt. A royal mourning period in Egypt was 72 days. Jacob was obviously a greatly honored man.
2. (4-6) Joseph asks Pharaoh for permission to bury his father in Canaan.
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’” And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
a. Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh: The fact that Joseph made his initial request, not directly to the ruler of Egypt, but spoke to the household of Pharaoh, is the kind of detail that would be noted by true witness of the events, and not made up by a storyteller.
b. My father made me swear: Joseph explained the solemn promise his father required of him, and Pharaoh gave him the liberty to keep the promise and buryIsrael in Canaan.
3. (7-11) Jacob’s body is brought to Canaan.
So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering. Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
This was Joseph’s first time back in his homeland in thirty-nine years (he had been in Egypt twenty-two years before Jacob moved there and Jacob had lived there seventeen years). Centuries later the children of Israel would leave Egypt again, taking with them the bones of a patriarch, Joseph himself.
a. Joseph went up to bury his father: This was a dramatic burial. The entire clan gathered together to pay tribute to the man who was the last link with the patriarchs. The life of this man’s grandfather overlapped with the sons of Noah.
i. “Luther remarks that there is no burial recorded in the Scriptures quite as honorable as this or with such wealth of detail.” (Leupold)
b. They mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation: This was, no doubt, a day of rededication of the sons of Israel to the God of Israel, the God of the great covenant made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Their dedication to the God of Israel would be tested over the next many hundred years, but would survive.
4. (12-14) Jacob’s burial in the cave of the field of Machpelah.
So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them. For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place. And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
The bereaved mourned for seven days at a threshing floor near the Jordan River and so they named the place Abel Mizraim, which means “meadow (’abel) of Egyptians,” but by a wordplay it suggests “mourning (’ebel) of Egyptians.”
a. His sons did for him just as he had commanded them: Jacob’s sons had often opposed or disappointed him in life. They were careful to honor him in his death.
b. Buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah: This was the cave purchased by Abraham (Genesis 23:9), the only part of the land of Canaan that Abraham held deed to (Genesis 23:17). This was the burial place of Sarah (Genesis 23:19), of Abraham (Genesis 25:9), and of Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah (Genesis 49:31).
B. Joseph comforts his brothers’ fears.
1. (15) The fears of Joseph’s brothers.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”
a. Perhaps Joseph will hate us: The brothers feared that perhaps Joseph would turn on them after Jacob’s death. Knowing human nature, this was certainly possible.
b. And may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him: Here, they freely acknowledged all the evil which they did. What they worried about was justice. They feared righteous retribution. Joseph, with his high status and prestige in Egypt, was certainly capable of bringing this retribution.
2. (16-18) The unlikely story of Joseph’s brothers.
So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ‘ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
a. Before your father died he commanded: This story was probably made up. They didn’t feel they had the moral right to ask Joseph for mercy, since they sinned against him so greatly. So they put the request for mercy in the mouth of their honored and dead father.
b. Joseph wept when they spoke to him: Joseph probably wept because it seemed that his brothers thought so little of him and they doubted his character so greatly.
c. Fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants”: They backed up their plea for mercy with a genuine display of humility.
3. (19-21) Joseph comforts his brothers.
Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
God does not want us to retaliate for wrongs done to us. Vengeance belongs to Him (Deut 32:35; Rom 12:19). The plots of his brothers, and even Potiphar’s wife, turned out for good for “those who love God, who the called according to His purpose” (Rom 8:28).
a. Am I in the place of God: Joseph first understood he was not in the place of God. It wasn’t his job to bring retribution upon his brothers. If the LORD chose to punish them, He would have to find an instrument other than Joseph.
i. From a human perspective, Joseph had the right and the ability to bring retribution upon his brothers, but he knew God was God and he was not. Such retribution was God’s place, not Joseph’s.
b. As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good: Joseph did not romanticize the wrong his brothers did. He plainly said, “You meant evil against me.” Although this was true, it was not the greatest truth. The greatest truth was “God meant it for good.”
i. Every Christian should be able to see the overarching and overruling hand of God in their life; to know that no matter what evil man brings against us, God can use it for good.
ii. Joseph did not have the text of Romans 8:28, but he had the truth of it: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Sadly, many of us who have the text do not have the truth.
iii. Ultimately, our lives are not in the hands of men, but in the hands of God, who overrules all things for His glory.
iv. There was an old minister who had a unique gift to minister to the distressed and discouraged. In his Bible, he carried an old bookmark woven of silk threads into a motto. The back of it, where the threads were knotted and tied, was a hopeless tangle. He would take the bookmark out and show the troubled person this side of the bookmark and ask them to make sense of it. They never could. Then the pastor would turn it over, and on the front were white letters against a solid background saying, “God is love.” When events in our life seem tangled and meaningless, it is because we can see only one side of the tapestry.
c. To save many people alive: This was the immediate good in the situation. If this large family did not come to Egypt and live, it would have perished in the famine. Had the family barely survived, it would have assimilated into the Canaanite tribes surrounding it. Only by coming to Egypt could they be preserved and grow into a distinct nation.
i. As said before, if Joseph’s brothers never sold him to the Midianites, then Joseph would never have gone to Egypt.
· If Joseph never went to Egypt, he would never have been sold to Potiphar.
· If Joseph was never sold to Potiphar, Potiphar’s wife would never have falsely accused him of rape.
· If Potiphar’s wife never falsely accused Joseph of rape, then Joseph would never have been put in prison.
· If Joseph was never put in prison, he would have never met the baker and butler of Pharaoh.
· If Joseph never met the baker and butler of Pharaoh, he would have never interpreted their dreams.
· If Joseph never interpreted their dreams, he would have never interpreted Pharaoh’s dream.
· If Joseph never interpreted Pharaoh’s dream, he never would have become prime minister, second in Egypt only to Pharaoh.
· If Joseph never became prime minister, he never would have wisely prepared for the terrible famine to come.
· If Joseph never wisely prepared for the terrible famine, then his family back in Canaan would have died in the famine.
· If Joseph’s family back in Canaan died in the famine, then the Messiah could not have come from a dead family.
· If the Messiah did not come forth, then Jesus never came.
· If Jesus never came, then we are all dead in our sins and without hope in this world.
· We are grateful for God’s great and wise plan.
d. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them: Because Joseph trusted the overarching hand of God, even in all the evil that came upon him through his brothers, he showed the love and compassion to them he did.
i. Often, the problem we have in loving others and in freeing ourselves from bitterness we may have towards them is really a problem of not knowing who God is and trusting Him to be who He says He is.
e. I will provide for you and your little ones: Joseph’s love for his brothers was shown not only in feelings and words, but also in practical action. He actually did provide for his brothers and their families.
C. The death of Joseph.
1. (22-24) Joseph is still in Egypt, but his heart is in Canaan.
So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph’s knees. And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Placing them on his knees at their birth was a gesture signifying they belonged to him (cf. Job 3:12).
a. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years: His long life was further evidence of God’s blessing on Joseph’s life, as was seeing Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The hardships of his life did not diminish God’s ultimate blessing upon him.
b. God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob: Joseph was the human agent most responsible for bringing this family to Egypt. Yet he knew that because of the covenant God had made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, this would not be their resting place. They were headed – eventually – back to Canaan.
2. (25-26) The death and embalming of Joseph.
Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Joseph died at 110 and, like Jacob, he was embalmed. (Abraham lived to be 175; Isaac, 180; and Jacob, 147.) The Book of Genesis closes with the promise of the land yet unfulfilled but with the expectation of a visitation from on high. The words of Joseph, given twice, amazingly summarize the hope expressed throughout the Old Testament as well as the New Testament: God will surely come to your aid. The Book of Genesis opens with the “Creation of the Universe,” “Let there be light” and “In the Beginning God…” The book closes with “… a coffin in Egypt.” Man’s failure brought a curse. God’s Plan of redemption will be presented through a nation that will be born in the caldron of Egypt.
a. He was put in a coffin in Egypt: According to this passage and Hebrews 11:22, Joseph was never buried. His coffin laid above ground for the 400 or so years until it was taken back to Canaan. It was a silent witness for all those years that Israel was going back to the Promised Land, just as God said.
i. Joseph lived a life of dramatic faith. Yet in the end, this is how he was remembered in the Hebrews 11 Museum of Faith: By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones (Hebrews 11:22).
· This was faith, because it trusted God’s promise to His people.
· This was faith, because it knew where God’s people belonged.
· This was faith, because it looked to the future.
· This was faith, because it proclaimed God’s faithful promise in any way possible – even through a dead man’s bones!
b. You shall carry up my bones from here: This promise was fulfilled some 400 years later, when Israel left Egypt (Exodus 13:19). This command showed that Joseph’s heart was in the Promised Land. It also proved him to be a man of great faith, trusting in things not yet seen (Hebrews 11:22).
i. All during that time, when a child of Israel saw Joseph’s coffin and asked what it was there for and why it was not buried, they could be answered, “Because the great man Joseph did not want to be buried in Egypt, but in the Promised Land God will one day lead us to.”
ii. Some promises of God take a long time to fulfill, and we must persevere in trusting God. George Mueller was a remarkable man of faith who ran orphanages in England. In a sermon preached when he was 75 years old, he said 30,000 times in his 54 years as a Christian he received the answer to prayer on the same day he prayed it. But not all his prayers were answered so quickly. He told of one prayer that he brought to God about 20,000 times over more than 11 years, and he still trusted God for the answer: “I hope in God, I pray on, and look for the answer. Therefore, beloved brethren and sisters, go on waiting upon God, go on praying.”
iii. Joseph died looking forward to God’s unfolding plan of redemption, and that is where the Book of Genesis – the Book of Beginnings – ends. It concludes looking forward to the continuation of God’s eternal, loving, wise plan.
Joseph as a Type of Christ
Genesis Type Fulfillment
1) 30:24; 41:45 Meaning of his name: Joseph (“adding”) Zaphnathpaaneah (“Revealer of Secrets”) [Heart of God, John 1:18; Heart of brethren] John 12:24; 14:3 Luke 2:34, 35
2) 37:2 Occupation: Shepherd (Abel, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David…) Ps 23
3) 37:2 Opposition to evil John 7:7
4) 37:3 His father’s love (Solomon: Prov 8:22,30) Son Name Matt 3:17 Matt 17:5 John 10:17 Phil 2:9; Rev 3:21
5) 37:3 Relation to his father’s age Jesus: Son of Father’s Eternity John 17:5 Col 2:9; 1 Tim 3:16; Mic 5:2
6) 37:3 Coat of many colors (distinction) Long robe with sleeves Judg 5:30 2 Sam 13:18
7) 37:4 Hatred of his brethren Because of Who He Was John 1:11 John 5:18; 6:41; 10:30, 31; 1 Cor 16:22; Ps 2:12
8) 37:4, 5, 8 Hated because of his words John 7:7; John 8:40
9) 37:11 Prophetic future Isa 9:6,7; Luke 1:31-33
10) 37:7, 9 Future sovereignty was foretold Earthly & Heavenly Matt 26:64 Rev 12:l, 5; 2 Pet 3:4
11) 37:4, 11 Envied by his brethren Matt 27:17, 18; Mark 12:6, 7; John 12:18, 19; Acts 7:9
12) 37:13 Sent forth by his father 1 John 4:10; Heb 10:7
13) 37:14 Seeks welfare of his brethren Definite object of mission John 1:11 Matt 15:24; John 3:17; Rom 15:8
14) 37:14 Sent forth from the vale of Hebron Servant; fellowship, communion Phil 2:6, 7
15) 37:14 Came to Shechem Shoulder, saddleback (divide waters: Jordan and Mediterranean) Place of sin (34:25-30) Gal 4:4
16) 37:15- 16 Became a wanderer in the field (No place to lay his head) Matt 13:38 John 7:53; 8:1
17) 37:17 Seeks until he finds his brethren (in Dothan = law, custom) Mark 9:8
18) 37:18 Conspired against Matt 12:14
19) 37:19- 20 Words disbelieved Matt 27:39-43; John 3:18, 36
20) 37:23 Insulted; stripped Matt 27:27, 28; John 19:23
21) 37:24 Cast into a pit (no water) Zech 9:11; Matt 12:40
22) 37:28 Bodily lifted up out of the pit 1 Cor 15
23) 37:25- 27 Hypocrisy mingled with hatred (Brothers heard cries: 42:21) Matt 27:35, 36 John 18:28
24) 37:28 Sold (Judah negotiates bargain) (Judas = Anglicized Greek equivalent; same name) Zech 11:12, 13 Matt 26:14-16
25) 37:31- 32 Blood presented to father Sin offering (Cf. Deception of Isaac) Chapter 38: In Canaan Chapter 39: In Egypt (Cf. Hos 11:1) Heb 9:12, 23 Matt 2:15
26) 39:1 Becomes a servant Bondservant (Ex 21:5,6) Phil 2:6, 7 Ps 40 (ears digged)
27) 39:2, 3 Prospers as a servant Ps 1:3; Isa 53:10; 52:13
28) 39:4 Master was well pleased with him John 8:29
29) 39:5 Made a blessing for others
30) 39:6 A goodly person, well favored Matt 27:54
31) 39:7-12 Sorely tempted, yet sinned not In Egypt (world) Luke 4 2 Tim 2:22; Ps 105:19
32) 39:16- 19 Falsely accused Matt 26:59, 60
33) 39:19 No defense presented when he was accused Isa 53:7
34) 39:20 Cast into prison, without verdict John 18:38
35) 39:20 Suffers though innocent Acts 7:9, 10; Ps 105:17, 18; Isa 53:7-9
36) 39:20 Suffers at the hands of Gentiles Acts 4:26, 27
37) 39:21 Won respect of his jailor Potiphar = Captain of the guard Luke 23:47
38) 40:1-3 Numbered with the transgressors (Two) Isa 53:12
39) 40:13, 19 Means of blessing to one; judgment to the other 3 days; hung on tree as cursed Gen 49:10-12 Gal 3:13
40) 40:8 Knowledge of future from God Every believer obligated to set forth the truth he has John 12:49 1 John 1:3 1 Pet 4:11
41) 40:20- 22 Predictions came true Matt 5:18
42) 40:14 Desired to be remembered This do in remembrance of me Luke 22:19
43) 41:14; 40:20 Delivered from prison, in due time Pharaoh’s birthday; 3rd day John 20:6, 7 Acts 2:24; 2 Cor 1:9
44) 45:7-9 Delivered by the hand of God 2 years later: patience Acts 2:24, 32 Acts 10:40
45) 45:16, 25; 41:28 Seen as a Revealer of Secrets Whole counsel of God John 12:49; Isa 62:2; Rev 2:17, 3:12; Acts 20:27; John 8:28; Isa 46:10; Amos 3:7; John 17:8; Rev 1:1
46) 41:25- 36 :32 Warnings of Danger: urged provisions Doubling: Verily, Verily; Amen, Amen Matt 24 and 25 Gal 1:8, 9
47) 41:33- 36 Wonderful Counselor “Discrete”: only here in Old Testament Col 2:3
48) 41:37- 39 Counsel commended to officers Matt 7:28, 29; 13:54; John 7:46
49) 41:39, 40 Exalted and set over all Egypt 1 Pet 3:22; Rev 5, 20
50) 41:40- 43 Seated on the throne of another [Distinction between Father and Son’s thrones] Rev 3:21
51) 41:38 Exalted because of personal worthiness and service Phil 2:6-9
52) 41:42 Invested in positional insignia Acts 5:31; Heb 2:9; Rev 1:13
53) 41:43 Authority and glory publicly owned Acts 2:36; Phil 2:10
54) 41:45 Received a new name Phil 2:9, 10; Matt 1:21; Rev 3:12
55) 41:45 Has a wife (Gentile) given to him Tamar - Canaanite; Rahab - Amorite Ruth - Moabite; Bathsheba - Hittite Rev 19:7, 8
56) 41.45 Marriage arranged by Pharaoh (Cf. Jer 3:14, 20; Ezek 16:3, 31, 32; Jer 2:3) Two sons: “forgetting” Northern Kingdom, past “Fruitful” Southern Kingdom, future Matt 22:2 Jer 31:31-34 Ezek 16:62, 63 Hos 2:19-23; Isa 54:5-8
57) 41:46 Thirty years old when began work Luke 3:23
58) 41:46 Went forth from Pharaoh’s presence Luke 3:22
59) 41:46 Service was active and itinerant Matt 4:23; 9:35
60) 41:47- 49 Exaltation followed by season of plenty 2 Cor 6:2; John 12:24
61) 41:53 Exaltation followed by season of famine [7 years: Jacob’s Trouble: Jer 30:7; Dan 12:1; Mark 13:19, 20; Isa 55:6; Jer 8:20; Amos 8:11,12; Rev 3:10] Rom 11:25
62) 41:55 Dispensing to a perishing world John 14:6; Rom 11:11
63) 41:55 Alone dispenses the Bread of Life Acts 4:12; John 6:26-59; 14:6
64) 41:57 A Savior to all people [Every tribe…] John 3:16 Rev 5:9
65) 41:49 Unlimited resources to meet the need Eph 1:7; 2:7; 3:8; Col 2:9; Rom 10:12
Dispensationally Considered:
66) 42:1- 3, 5 Brethren driven out of own land Gen 15:13; Deut 28:63-68
67) 42:6, 8 Unknown and unrecognized by brethren [20 years later] John 1:11 Rom 11:25
68) 42:7 Brethren seen and recognized Jer 16:17; Hos 5:3; Ps 103:14
69) 42:7, 17 Brethren punished [v13: thought dead, but still in family] [Simeon ringleader? Gen 49:5] Hos 9:17 Matt 23:38 Matt 23:35, 36
70) 42:17- 19; 42:24 Made known to them a way of deliverance through substitution Acts 2:21-41
71) 42:25 Made provision for his brethren while they were in a strange land Jer 30:11; Ezek 11:16
72) 45:1 Made known to his brethren at the 2nd time [Always at 2nd time] Moses (Ex 2:11-14) Joshua (Num 13; Deut 34:9) David (1 Sam 17:17-18; 1 Sam 17:28) Acts 7:13; Isa 65:1 Luke 19:14
73) 44:16 Brethren confess in the sight of God [Israel to repent before He returns] Ezek 20:42-43; Hos 5:15 Acts 3:19-20
74) 45:3 Brethren initially troubled in his presence Zech 12:10
75) 45:4, 5 Demonstrated marvelous grace Gen 45:15; Zech 13:1; Isa 54:7-8
76) 45:1-2 Revealed as a man of compassion Wept seven times: When brethren confessed When he beheld Benjamin When he made himself known When brethren reconciled Over his father, Jacob At the death of his father When his love was questioned John 11:35 Gen 42:24 Gen 43:30 Gen 45:1,2 Gen 45:15 Gen 46:29 Gen 50:1 Gen 50:15-17
77) 45:1 Revealed to Judah and brethren before rest of Jacob’s household Zech 12:7
78) 45:18 Jacob then sent for Isa 66:20
79) 45:9, 13 Brethren go forth to proclaim his glory Isa 66:19; Mic 5:7
80) 46:29 Goes forth in his chariot to meet Jacob Isa 66:15
81) 47:27; 47:6 Settles brethren in land of their own (The best land) Ezek 48
82) 50:18- 19 Brethren prostrate themselves before him as a representative of God Isa 9:6-7; 25:9 Phil 2:10-11
Evangelically Considered:
83) 42:5 Brethren dwelt in a land of famine (That we may live and not die…) John 6:33, 35; 42:2
84) 42:3 Brethren wished to pay for what they received Gal 2:16
85) 42:7- 11 Brethren assume a self-righteous attitude before the lord of Egypt Gal 2:20-21
86) 42:17 Cast into prison 3 days Isa 42:6-7; 61:1; Ps 142:7
87) 42:21 Smitten of conscience (Cf. Ex 9:27, Ezra 9:6; Ps 40:12, Dan 5:6) John 8:9
88) 42:25 Makes known that deliverance is by grace Eph 2:8, 9 89) 42:26 Enjoys a brief respite
90) 42:27- 28 Superficial peace disturbed (Replenished: Gen 43:1-2) Heb 12:6-11
91) 43:11, 15 Brethren continue to manifest legal spirit (Doubled the money) Gal 3:3 Luke 14:17
92) 43:16; 43:33, 34 Brethren dine with him and make merry Matt 13:20, 21
93) 44:1, 2 Joseph to bring brethren into the light John 1:4, 7-9; 2 Pet 3:9
94) 44:4, 16 Brethren take their true place before God 1 John 1:7-9
95) 45:1 Makes himself known (alone) 1 Cor 13:12
96) 45:4, 7 Invites brethren to come near to him Matt 11:28-30
97) 45:10, 11 Brethren told of full provision for them Phil 4:19
98) 45:15 Gives proof he is fully reconciled to them Rom 8:31-39
99) 45:16 Joy shared by others Rev 5:9-13
100) 45:9- 13 Brethren now go forth seeking others (“Haste” twice) Acts 1:8
101) 45:24 Admonition as they go forth 2 Tim 2:24
King Merenptah King Merenptah was the 13th son of Ramses II and on the “Victory Stela” there are 28 lines of metered poetical hymn celebrating victories over a Lybian coalition, which also includes reference to Israel as a tribe (Official Catalogue, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Item 212, Gnd flr, Rm 13). Incidentally, King Merenptah’s lungs contained salts indicating death by drowning in salt water.
