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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/49-28.htm" title="Genesis 49:28">◄</a> Genesis 49:29 <a href="../genesis/49-30.htm" title="Genesis 49:30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">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 <i>is</i> in the field of Ephron the Hittite,</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/49.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/genesis/49.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/genesis/49.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/genesis/49.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/genesis/49.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a 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and our people in this world, it <span class="ital">gathers </span>us to <span class="ital">our fathers </span>and to <span class="ital">our people </span>in the other world. Perhaps Jacob useth this expression concerning death, as a reason why his sons should bury him in Canaan: For (he saith) <span class="ital">I am to be gathered unto my people — </span>My soul must go to the spirits of just men made perfect, and therefore <span class="ital">bury me with my fathers — </span>Abraham and Isaac, and their wives.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/genesis/49.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>49:28-33 Jacob blessed every one according to the blessings God in after-times intended to bestow upon them. He spoke about his burial-place, from a principle of faith in the promise of God, that Canaan should be the inheritance of his seed in due time. When he had finished both his blessing and his charge, and so had finished his testimony, he addressed himself to his dying work. He gathered up his feet into the bed, not only as one patiently submitting to the stroke, but as one cheerfully composing himself to rest, now that he was weary. He freely gave up his spirit into the hand of God, the Father of spirits. If God's people be our people, death will gather us to them. Under the care of the Shepherd of Israel, we shall lack nothing for body or soul. We shall remain unmoved until our work is finished; then, breathing out our souls into His hands for whose salvation we have waited, we shall depart in peace, and leave a blessing for our children after us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/49.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>After the benediction Jacob gives directions concerning his burial. "All these are the twelve tribes". This implies that the benedictions refer not to the heads only, but to the whole tribes. "Each according to his blessing." All are blessed, but the form of the blessing is suited to the character of the individual "Bury me with my fathers" - with Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah. This dying command he now lays on the twelve, as he had before bound Joseph by oath to its performance. "Gathered up his feet into the bed." He had been sitting upright while pronouncing the benedictory address and giving his last directions. He now lies down and calmly breathes his last. <p> - The Burial of Jacob<p>10. אטד 'āṭâd Atad, "the buck-thorn."<p>11. מצרים אבל 'ābêl-mı̂tsrayı̂m, Abel-Mitsraim, "mourning of Mizraim," or meadow of Mizraim.<p>This chapter records the burial of Jacob and the death of Joseph, and so completes the history of the chosen family, and the third bible for the instruction of man.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/genesis/49.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>29. he charged them—The charge had already been given and solemnly undertaken (Ge 47:31). But in mentioning his wishes now and rehearsing all the circumstances connected with the purchase of Machpelah, he wished to declare, with his latest breath, before all his family, that he died in the same faith as Abraham.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/genesis/49.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> In Canaan. Whereby he designed to withdraw their minds from Egypt, and fix them upon Canaan. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/genesis/49.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he charged them, and said unto them,.... The same charge he had given to Joseph he here renews, and lays it upon his sons, who were everyone of them to go along with Joseph to bury him in Canaan: <p>I am to be gathered unto my people; the people of God, the spirits of just men made perfect, the souls of all the saints who before this time had departed this life, and were in a state of happiness and bliss; called his people, because he and they were of the same mystical body the church, belonged to the same general assembly, and church of the firstborn; the company of God's elect, who were in the same covenant of grace, and partakers of the same blessings and promises of grace: this shows that the souls of men are immortal; that there is a future state after death, which is a state of happiness, and into which saints immediately enter as soon as they die, and where Jacob expected to be in a short time: <p>bury me with my fathers; the other part of himself, his body, which should not be gathered to his people, as his soul would be, he orders to be interred with his fathers Abraham and Isaac: <p>in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite; which is more particularly described in the following verse, being the place of his father's sepulchre. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/genesis/49.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">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,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/genesis/49.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">29</span>. <span class="ital">gathered unto my people</span>] See note on <a href="/genesis/25-8.htm" title="Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.">Genesis 25:8</a> (P).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">bury me</span>] Cf. <a href="/context/genesis/47-29.htm" title="And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:...">Genesis 47:29-31</a> (J).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/49.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 29, 30.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people</span> (<span class="accented">vide</span> on Genesis 15:15): <span class="cmt_word">bury me with my fathers</span> - thus laying on them the injunction he had previously, with the super-added solemnity of an oath, laid on Joseph (<a href="/genesis/47-29.htm">Genesis 47:29-31</a>) - <span class="cmt_word">in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mature, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place</span> (<span class="accented">vide</span> <a href="/genesis/23-16.htm">Genesis 23:16-20</a>). Jacob had learnt from his father and had carefully preserved all the details relating to the purchase of their family sepulcher. <span class="cmt_word">There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. From this it would appear that Leah had not descended into Egypt.</span> Genesis 49:29<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/genesis/49.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Death of Jacob. - After the blessing, Jacob again expressed to his twelve sons his desire to be buried in the sepulchre of his fathers (<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/24.htm">Genesis 24</a>), where Isaac and Rebekah and his own wife Leah lay by the side of Abraham and Sarah, which Joseph had already promised on oath to perform (<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/47-29.htm">Genesis 47:29-31</a>). He then drew his feet into the bed to lie down, for he had been sitting upright while blessing his sons, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered to his people (vid., <a href="/genesis/25-8.htm">Genesis 25:8</a>). ויּגוע instead of ויּמת indicates that the patriarch departed from this earthly life without a struggle. 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