-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- sally reinhart on November 30, 2020: Day 100 – Ezekiel 48
- Kathleen Barge on November 30, 2020: Day 100 – Ezekiel 48
- Sally Reinhart on September 24, 2020: Day 33 – Jeremiah 33
- Kathleen Anne Barge on August 29, 2020: Day 7 – Jeremiah 7
- Nancy Van Horn on August 27, 2020: Day 5 – Jeremiah 5 – “An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land.”
Archives
- February 2021
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
Categories
Meta
February 9, 2018: Day 46 – Genesis 46
Jacob makes the trip to Egypt and brings along with him all of his family and his livestock. He is carried to Egypt in the chariots and wagons that were provided by the Egyptians. The Egyptians knew how to make chariots and wagons. It would be as if someone sent you a car to go to an event and it was the top of the line Mercedes, or Lamborghini, or whatever car that is a luxury car and known for its quality. So Jacob and his family rode into Egypt in style.
I did find it interesting that Judah was sent ahead to Joseph to lead the way in vs.28. If you go back to the story you will see in chapter 37:26 that it was the idea of Judah to sell Joseph into slavery so that they could get some money out of it. It seems like he is consistently the one who is not doing his father's will. Maybe Jacob sent him ahead because he didn't want him around much more. I am sure that Joseph would have seen him first and remembered that he was the one who had sold him into slavery and it would have tested his resolve to have his family with him again. We don't read about that reunion, but we do read about the reunion of Joseph and his father.
The last tidbit in this chapter is the insistence by Joseph that the brothers tell Pharaoh the truth that they were shepherds because shepherds were abhorrent to Egyptians. This allowed the Israelites to have their own land, Goshen, and to be set apart from the rest of the population. This would allow them to worship the God of Abraham in peace without people wondering what they were doing or demanding that they worship the gods of Egypt. It was smart to live apart in that way.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
Back in Ch 32, God told Jacob that he shall be called Israel. Yet subsequent chapters refer to him as both Israel and Jacob. Is there an explanation for that?
The best explanation is that we find his name to be interchangeable. It does flip flop consistently throughout the end of Genesis. It is not as if God forgot his name or that the name Israel no longer applies. It does, it just seems as if it was used interchangeably.