There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
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There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
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Passages linked to Genesis 50:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 41:43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 46:29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
- Exodus 14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
- Exodus 14:17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- 2 Kings 18:24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- Song of Solomon 1:9 I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Acts 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 50:9 And there went up with him both…
Gen 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Ver. 9. A very great company.] This was for the honour of Jacob at his death, whose greatest care had been to honour God in his whole life.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And there went up with him both chariots and…
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen,.... Which was done both for the sake of honour and grandeur, and for safety and defence, should they be attacked by robbers in the deserts, or opposed by the Canaanites, and be refused the use of the cave of Machpelah, and the right to it disputed:
and it was a very great company; both for quantity and quality; the attendants at this funeral were very numerous, and many of them great personages, and upon the whole was a very honourable company, as the word (k) signifies, and made a very great figure and grand appearance:
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or a very great army (l), consisting of chariots and horsemen fit for war; if there should be any occasion for it: and the Jews (m) pretend that Esau came out with a large army, and met Joseph at the cave of Machpelah, and endeavoured to hinder the burial of Jacob there, where he lost his life, having his head struck off with the sword of Chushim, the son of Dan: some say it was Zepho, the grandson of Esau, with the sons of Esau, that made the disturbance there, on which a battle ensued, in which Joseph was the conqueror, and Zepho was taken captive; see Gill on Gen 36:11, the Jews (n) give us the order and manner of the above procession thus; first Joseph, next the servants of Pharaoh, or the princes, then the elders of the court of Pharaoh, then all the elders of the land of Egypt, then the whole house of Joseph, next to them the brethren of Joseph, who were followed by their eldest sons, and after them were the chariots, and last of all the horses.
(k) "honorabilis"; so Abendana. (l) "exercitus ille"; Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Schmidt. (m) T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 13. 1. Targum Jon. in ver. 13. Pirke Eliezer, c. 39. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 5. 1. (n) R. Bechai apud Hottinger. Smegma, c. 8. p. 381.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Chariots and horsemen — For protection and defence.…
9. Chariots and horsemen — For protection and defence. So large and solemn a procession required a military escort in their long march through the desert.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. chariots and horsemen] A strange element in a…
9. chariots and horsemen] A strange element in a burial procession, and one which it would be hard to illustrate from the records of Egypt. Possibly, we are intended to consider them in the light of a guard for the protection of the procession travelling into Canaan.
On “chariots” and “horses” in Egypt, see Gen_47:17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) A very great company.—Heb., camp, the word following…
(9) A very great company.—Heb., camp, the word following immediately upon the mention of the chariots and horsemen which went as the escort of the elders. These were the chief officers of Pharaoh’s household, and also of the districts into which Egypt was divided, of which each had its separate governor. Of the Israelites only the men of rank, Jacob’s own sons, and the officers of his house took part in the funeral procession, while their little ones—Heb., their “tafs,” translated here in the LXX. their clans, and signifying the great body of their dependents—remained with their cattle in the land of Goshen.
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