Genesis 50:5 KJV
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Thou and Ye
- thou, thee one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- The mourning for JacobThough pious relatives and friends have lived to a good old age, and we are confident they are gone to glory, yet we may regret our own loss, and pay respect...
Thompson Chains
- Filial Honor (2)See the chain from Genesis 47:12 · 3 links
Parallel Passages
- Genesis 47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- 2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
- Isaiah 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
- Matthew 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
- Genesis 47:29–31 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: …
- Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
- Genesis 49:29–30 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, …
- Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
- 1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
- Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- Psalms 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Matthew 8:21–22 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. …
- Luke 9:59–60 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. …
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Topics
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1745–1635 BC · Joseph
Places
- CanaanRegion · Location well established
- Places in Genesis 50 on a map
Bible Dictionary
- Canaan(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (Gen...
Hebrew and Strong’s
- My father אָבִי ʾābî אָב Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- made me swear הִשְׁבִּיעַנִי hišbîʿanî שָׁבַע Verb · hiphil perfect, third person masculine singular · with suffix: first person common singular
- saying לֵאמֹר lēʾmōr אָמַר Verb · qal infinitive construct · with preposition
- Lo הִנֵּה hinnê הִנֵּה Demonstrative
- I die אָנֹכִי ʾānōkî Pronoun · first person common singular מֵת mēt מוּת Verb · qal active participle, masculine singular
- in my grave בְּקִבְרִי bĕqibrî קֶבֶר Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition, suffix: first person common singular
- which I have digged אֲשֶׁר ʾăšer Relative כָּרִיתִי kārîtî כָּרָה Verb · qal perfect, first person common singular
- for me in the land לִי lî Preposition · with suffix: first person common singular בְּאֶרֶץ bĕʾereṣ אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with preposition
- of Canaan כְּנַעַן kĕnaʿan כְּנַעַן Proper name
- there shalt thou bury me שָׁמָּה šāmmâ Adverb · with ending: toward תִּקְבְּרֵנִי tiqbĕrēnî קָבַר Verb · qal imperative, second person masculine singular · with suffix: first person common singular
- Now therefore let me go up וְעַתָּה wĕʿattâ Adverb · with and אֶעֱלֶה ʾeʿĕlê עָלָה Verb · qal cohortative, first person common singular נָּא nāʾ Interjection
- I pray thee, and bury וְאֶקְבְּרָה wĕʾeqbĕrâ קָבַר Verb · qal cohortative, first person common singular · with and
- my father אֶת ʾet Object marker אָבִי ʾābî אָב Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- and I will come again וְאָשׁוּבָה wĕʾāšûbâ שׁוּב Verb · qal imperfect, first person common singular · with and
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