Lesson 26 - Joseph's Final Days – (Genesis 50)
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OPEN IT
1. What is the hardest promise you have had to keep?
EXPLORE IT
2. What did Joseph do when his father died? (50:1-3)
3. What did Joseph ask Pharaoh? (50:4-5)
4. What was Pharaoh's response to Joseph's request? (50:6)
5. Where did Joseph go, and who went with him? (50:7-9)
6. What did Joseph do when he reached Atad? (50:10)
7. What did the Canaanites who saw Joseph think? (50:11)
8. What did Joseph do? (50:12-14)
9. What worried Joseph's brothers after their father died, and what did they do about it? (50:15-18)
10. How did Joseph respond to his brothers? (50:19-21)
11. What did Joseph do when he was about to die? (50:22-25)
12. How old was Joseph when he died, and how was he buried? (50:26)
GET IT
13. Why is it important to keep one's promises even when it is inconvenient or difficult to do so?
14. What are the mourning and burial customs practiced in our society?
APPLY IT
15. What promise do you need to keep this week even if doing so is inconvenient?
Explore It Answers
This section is designed to prompt thoughts about how and why to derive each scripture-based answer, so the actual answer is based upon individual study and may not be fully disclosed here. Here, also, are parallel verses for the key scripture texts.
Biblical Answer 2
What did Joseph do when his father died? (50:1-3)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:1-3 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 3
What did Joseph ask Pharaoh? (50:4-5)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:4-5 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 41:16; James 1:5; Job 42:2
Biblical Answer 4
What was Pharaoh's response to Joseph's request? (50:6)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:6 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 5
Where did Joseph go, and who went with him? (50:7-9)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:7-9 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 44:33-34; John 15:13; Romans 5:7-8
Biblical Answer 6
What did Joseph do when he reached Atad? (50:10)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:10 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 7
What did the Canaanites who saw Joseph think? (50:11)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:11 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 50:20; Acts 7:9-10; Romans 8:28
Biblical Answer 8
What did Joseph do? (50:12-14)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:12-14 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 9
What worried Joseph's brothers after their father died, and what did they do about it? (50:15-18)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:15-18 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 10
How did Joseph respond to his brothers? (50:19-21)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:19-21 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 11
What did Joseph do when he was about to die? (50:22-25)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:22-25 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 12
How old was Joseph when he died, and how was he buried? (50:26)
Key Scripture: Genesis 50:26 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 45:5; Genesis 50:20; Romans 8:28
Commentary Summary
In Genesis 50:1-26, The Death of Jacob highlights doctrinal themes such as God’s character, human accountability, and the certainty of His redemptive purpose. Faith is a genuine receiving (John 1:12)- a sure dependence upon God (Proverbs. The emphasis is theological, asking what the text teaches about creation, covenant, judgment, grace, salvation, and the trustworthiness of God. This summary is designed to identify the major truths being taught, not merely repeat the narrative details. It therefore reads as a concise doctrinal overview suitable for the commentary summary section.
In The Death of Jacob, the flow of Genesis 50:1-26 emphasizes practical faith, obedience, and response to God. 3:5). The focus here is pastoral and applicational, showing how the lesson challenges the reader to trust, repent, endure, worship, and walk in obedience. This summary is intentionally more devotional and exhortational so it does not simply duplicate the doctrinal wording used in the other commentary summaries. It aims to sound more like a practical Bible study note directed toward daily Christian living.
Within the broader storyline of Genesis and the Bible as a whole, Genesis 50:1-26 helps move forward the pattern of promise, failure, mercy, and restoration that runs through Scripture. Accordingly, faith is not uncertain and doubtful, a result of man's imperfect knowledge of a testimony alone. This summary is shaped to sound more like a Bible Project overview by emphasizing literary flow, biblical themes, and how the lesson contributes to the unified story of Scripture. The goal is to locate the passage in the wider narrative rather than repeat the same doctrinal or devotional emphasis.
Last Week
The promise of the land is especially emphasized in the testament of Jacob (49:1-27). There Jacob functions as a prophet, and his words predict aspects of the history of the tribes of Israel in the land of Canaan. For the most part Jacob's blessings on his sons were fulfilled from the time of the judges and into the time of the Israelite monarchy.
This Week
Faith is a genuine receiving (John 1:12)- a sure dependence upon God (Prov. Accordingly, faith is not uncertain and doubtful, a result of man's imperfect knowledge of a testimony alone. Though scriptural testimony is sure in itself (John 9:29; Romans.
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