[42]. Ibid. xxxvii. 1-14.

[43]. Ibid. xlix. 31.

[44]. Ibid. xlix. 29-33.

[45]. Ibid. l. 1-13. It will be observed that the historian lays special stress upon the embalmment. “And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed.”

[46]. Num. xiii. 22.

[47]. Ibid. xiii. 33; xiv. 6-24; xxxii. 12. Joshua xiv. 6-15; xv. 13.

[48]. 2 Sam. ii. 2-11. 1 Kings ii. 11. 1 Chron. iii. 1-4.

[49]. 2 Sam. iii. 22, 39.

[50]. 2 Sam. iv. 12.

[51]. 2 Sam. xv. 10.