Joshua 24:32

“And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, etc.] At the request, and by the order of Joseph, (<015025>Genesis 50:25); which were punctually observed by the children of Israel under the direction and command of Moses, and therefore is ascribed to him, as here to them, (<021319>Exodus 13:19); buried they in Shechem; not in the city, but in a field near it, as the next clause shows. The Jews in their Cippi Hebraici say f536, that Joseph was buried at a village called Belata, a sabbath day’s journey from Shechem; but Jerom says f537 he was buried in Shechem, and his monument was to be seen there in his time. Not that they buried him at the same time Joshua was…”

“the bones of Joseph--They had carried these venerable relics with them in all their migrations through the desert, and deferred the burial, according to the dying charge of Joseph himself, till they arrived in the promised land. The sarcophagus, in which his mummied body had been put, was brought thither by the Israelites, and probably buried when the tribe of Ephraim had obtained their settlement, or at the solemn convocation described in this chapter. in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought . . . for an hundred pieces of silver--Kestitah translated, "piece of silver," is supposed to mean "a lamb," the weights being in the form of lambs or kids, which were, in all probability, the earliest…”

“The bones of Joseph - Joseph died two hundred years before in Egypt, but gave commandment concerning his bones, that they should not rest in a grave, 'till Israel rested in the land of promise. Now therefore they were deposited in that piece of ground, which his father gave him near Shechem. One reason why Joshua called all Israel to Shechem, might be to attend Joseph's bones to the grave. So that he now delivered as it were both Joseph's funeral sermon, and his own farewell sermon. And if it was in the last year of his life, the occasion might well remind him, of his own death now at hand. For he was just of the same age with his illustrious ancestor, who died being one hundred and ten…”

“24:32 Israel had carried the bones of Joseph out of Egypt, through the years of their journeys, and into Canaan to honor Joseph’s last request to be buried in the land God had promised Israel (Gen 50:25; Exod 13:19). • Shechem was part of the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants, at the border between Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob had purchased the land centuries before for 100 pieces of silver.”

“bones: Gen 50:25; Exo 13:19; Act 7:16; Heb 11:22 buried: Gen 33:19, Gen 48:22 pieces of silver: or, lambs Joshua 24:33”