Genesis 50:2
Genesis · Old Testament · Chapter 50
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”Genesis 50:2
What Does Genesis 50:2 Mean?
Genesis 50:2 is found in the book of Genesis, chapter 50, verse 2 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 10 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (10)
These passages are connected to Genesis 50:2 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Genesis 50:26“So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.”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.”Mark 16:1“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.”John 19:39“And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.”Matthew 26:12“For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.”2 Chronicles 16:12“And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.”Nehemiah 3:8“Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.”Mark 14:8“She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.”Luke 24:1“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.”John 12:7“Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.”
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