There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
Parallel translations
- KJV And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and 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
Cross-references · 8
- Exod 14:17Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Exod 14:28The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. 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 all of them.
- 2 Kgs 18:24How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- Song 1:9I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Acts 8:2Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
- Gen 41:43and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
- Gen 46:29Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
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