along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
We have here an account of Jacob's funeral. Of the funerals of the kings of Judah, usually, no more is said than this, They were buried with their fathers in the city of David: but the funeral of the patriarch Jacob is more largely and fully described, to show how much better God was to him than he expected (he had spoken more than once...
Commenting on Genesis 50:7-14
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house,.... Joseph and his two sons, and his servants, and his eleven brethren and their sons that were grown up, and as many of his father's domestics as could be spared attended the funeral: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen; there must...
Gen 50:6-9 After the king’s permission had been obtained, the corpse was carried to Canaan, attended by a large company. With Joseph there went up “all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,” i.e., the leading officers of the court and state, “and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s...
Commenting on Genesis 50:6-9