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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:22

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Hebrews11:22

22 By saith Joseph when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel: And gave commandment concerning his bones.

Ioseph the first Son of Iacob by Rachel, whom God preferred before his Brethren, envied and sold by them, but advanced by him to be Lord of Egypt, and a Saviour to them, Heir of the Birth-right, and of his Father's Grace, a Patriarch and Prophet like him, drawing near to the end of his Pilgrimage on Earth; and dying, he made mention, and brought to the mind of the Israelites his Children, Brethren, and Nephews; and, likely, with a charge to convey it down to their Posterity, as it might be remembred by them, that tho he did with willingness and choice, looking for a better Place and State than any in Egypt, and that his Death should not obstruct the Issues of Providence to them for good; for God lived, and would surely visit them in their Posterity, Israel living where he sent Moses to them, and would make them go up gloriously out of Egypt, and bring them into the Land of Promise, and give it to them for their Inheritance. This Testimony he gives them of it by Faith, Gen. 50.24. And God fulfilled it 160 years after his Death, as he had sworn to Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

By Faith likewise he charged them about carrying his imbalmed Body with them, and burying it in Canaan, and obliged the Israelites to it by an Oath, Gen. 50.25. making it an Earnest and Signal to them of the Promise and Oath of God for their Deliverance, that as he desired his Bones might be buried in Canaan, being Heir together with Iacob of the same promised Inheritance, it might be a visible token of, and Incouragement, in the appointed time, to their Return. And this Israel fulfilled, Exod. 13.19. carrying them away with them, and afterwards burying of them in Shechem, the Lot of Ephraim, Iosh. 24.32.

Marginal references: Or, remembred.

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