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Genesis 50:10 KJV
Genesis · chapter 50 · verse 10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.Genesis 50:10 · King James Version
Genesis 50:10 in context
8And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- threshingfloorgôrena threshing-floorH1637 →
- lamentationmiçpêda lamentationH4553 →
- mournedçâphadproperly, to tear the hair and beat the breastsH5594 →
- beyondʻêberproperly, a region acrossH5676 →
- JordanYardênJarden, the principal river of PalestineH3383 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
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We have here an account of Jacob's funeral. Of the funerals of the kings of Judah, usually, no more is said than this, They were buried with their fathers in the city of David: but the funeral of the patriarch Jacob is more largely and fully described, to show how much better God was to him than he expected (he had…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-14