Gen 45:10, 46:28, 34, Exo 8:22, 9:26 | TSK | STEP | in the land. Goshen.Goshen was the most eastern district of Lower Egypt, and the frontier of that country and Arabia, not far from the Arabian gulf, and lying next to Canaan; for Jacob went directly thither when he came into Egypt, from which it was about eighty miles distant, though Hebron was distant from the Egyptian capital about three hundred miles. be near.

Genesis 45:10

in the land.

Goshen.Goshen was the most eastern district of Lower Egypt, and the frontier of that country and Arabia, not far from the Arabian gulf, and lying next to Canaan; for Jacob went directly thither when he came into Egypt, from which it was about eighty miles distant, though Hebron was distant from the Egyptian capital about three hundred miles.

be near.

Joh 14:2,3; 17:24

Genesis 46:28

Judah.

43:8; 44:16-34; 49:8

to direct.

31:21

Goshen.Goshen seems to have been a city, after which the land of Goshen was called. The LXX. render it by [Heroonpolis,] Heroonpolis, "city of Heroon;" which by some writers is simply called Heroum, and is by the ancient geographers placed in the eastern part of Egypt, not far from the Arabian Gulf.

34; 45:10; 47:1

Genesis 46:34

Thy servants.

32; 30:35; 34:5; 37:12

for every.From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.

43:32; Ex 8:26

Exodus 8:22

sever.

9:4,6,26; 10:23; 11:6,7; 12:13; Mal 3:18

know.

10; 7:17; Eze 30:19

midst.

Ps 74:12; 110:2

Exodus 9:26

8:22-32; 9:4,6; 10:23; 11:7; 12:13; Isa 32:18,19