Question: Just before Joseph died what did he make the sons of Israel promise?
Answer: That they must carry his bones to Canaan after God delivered them from Egypt. (Genesis 50:26)
Comments: Near the end of his life, Joseph realized that he would die in Egypt. He made his brothers swear an oath that he would not be buried there, but rather in the Promised Land that God had promised his ancestors.
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here." (Genesis 50:24-25, NASB)
Hundreds of years later, after the conquest of the land, Joshua finally buried Joseph's bones in Shechem - within the borders of Israel. (Joshua 24:32)
Note: This image of Joseph's burial in the Promised Land was rendered by James Shaw Crompton (1853-1916)
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