1And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
Jesus wept. …
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Joseph is here paying his last respects to his deceased father. 1. With tears and kisses, and all the tender expressions of a filial affection, he takes leave of the deserted body, Gen. 50:1. Though Jacob was old and decrepit, and must needs die in the course of nature—though he was poor comparatively, and a constant charge to his son Joseph, yet such an affection he had for a loving father, and s…
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