Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For to sojourn . . . are we come—The royal conversation took the course which Joseph had anticipated (Genesis 46:33), and they answered according to previous instructions—manifesting, however, in their determination to return to Canaan, a faith and piety which affords a hopeful symptom of their having become all, or most of them, religious men.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 47:4:
Psalms 105:23-25
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