Genesis 50:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Genesis 50:10 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 8:2
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

Topics

Agriculture Atad Burial Corn Dead (people)Dress Hair Mourning

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-14)

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 spoken more than once of dying for grief, and going to the grave bereaved of his ch…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, &c.--“Atad” may be taken as a common noun, signifying “the plain of the thorn bushes.” It was on the border between Egypt and Canaan; and as the last opportunity of indulging grief was always the most violent, the Egyptians made a prolonged halt at this spot, while the family of Jacob probably proceeded by themselves to the place of sepulture.