And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Parallel translations
- WEB There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
- BSB Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
- NKJV And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering.
- NASB Chariots with teams of horses also went up with him; and it was a very great company.
- NLT A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.
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Chariots and horsemen accompany Joseph, forming a very great company.
Overview
The grand military escort underscores Joseph's prominence and the honor accorded to Jacob's burial. The impressive procession again testifies to God's elevation of His servant in a foreign land. Such favor is part of how God preserves and advances His covenant people through Joseph.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 14:17And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
- Exod 14:28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Exod 14:7And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
- 2 Kgs 18:24How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- Song 1:9I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Acts 8:2And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
- Gen 41:43And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Gen 46:29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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