The Death of Joseph

Genesis 50

²² So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years. ²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children _k of the third generation. The _l children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were _m counted as Joseph's own. ₁ ²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but _n God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land _o that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." ²⁵ Then _p Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." ²⁶ So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They _q embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

1. Cross References
   Job 42:16
   And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
   Psalms 128:6
   May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
   
2. Cross References
   Numbers 32:39
   And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
   1 Chronicles 7:14 - 15
   The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 30:3
   Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 15:14
   But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
   Genesis 46:4
   I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
   Genesis 48:21
   Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
   Exodus 3:16 - 17
   Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
   Hebrews 11:22
   By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 15:18
   On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
   Genesis 26:3
   Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
   Genesis 28:13
   And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
   Genesis 35:12
   The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
   Genesis 46:4
   I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 13:19
   Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
   Joshua 24:32
   As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
   
7. Cross References
   Genesis 50:2
   And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.