Genesis 47

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 47:9 Jacob replied, "I have lived as a foreigner for 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they fall short of the years my fathers lived as foreigners." 2
  • 47:12 Joseph fed his father, his brothers and all his father's household, giving each family food in proportion to its little ones. 1

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Gen. 47:9

    …he declares to Pharaoh, “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,” (Gen. 47:9). In declaring that he had spent his life in constant wretchedness, he denies that he had…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Gen 47: 12

    …be shown to parents in relieving their wants. Joseph cherished his father in his old age. Gen 47: 12. It is but paying a just debt. Parents brought up children when they were young, and…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    A Believer's Privilege at Death cites Gen 47:9

    …not exempt him from troubles. ‘Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.’ Gen 47:9. Thus said a godly patriarch, though he had met with God. He named ‘the name of the place…