January, Dictionary of the Bible.

Embalming the dead appears to have its origin in Egypt. We have specific notice of its having been employed in the case of Jacob and Joseph, whose bodies were carried into Canaan and buried in the field Jacob bought of the sons of Emmor (Acts 7). The simple fact of Joseph’s embalming is mentioned Genesis 1. 26; but of Jacob it is said with more particularity, that “Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days” (Gen. 1:2, 32And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Genesis 1:2‑3)). There are several things remarkable in this statement, and the first is the mention it makes of physicians as being in the service of Joseph, and having it as a part of their proper employment to look after the embalming of the dead. Nicodemus and others who loved Jesus Christ prepared spices, myrrh, and aloes, to embalm His body. They appear, like Peter and John, not to have known the Scripture, “that He must rise again from the dead” (John 20:11The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. (John 20:1)—9). The body of Jesus could not see corruption, because He was “that Holy” One (Luke 1:3535And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35); Psa. 16:8-118I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psalm 16:8‑11); Acts 2:27-31; 13:34, 35, 36, 3727Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. (Acts 2:27‑31)
34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. (Acts 13:34‑37)).
Emerods. ―A painful disease with which the Lord afflicted the Philistines when they took and profaned the ark of the covenant (1 Sam. 5:66But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. (1 Samuel 5:6)).
Emmaus (people despised or obscure). ―This place is only mentioned once in the Scriptures, and that in connection with two who loved the Lord, who went thither on the day of His resurrection: “And it came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew near, and went with them; but their eyes were holden that they should not know Him.” When they told Him of what they had been conversing, and that they trusted that Jesus who had been crucified was He which should have redeemed Israel, He said unto them, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory? “How sad that this rebuke should apply to many who believe that Jesus died to bring them to God? (1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18).) They speak as if the Scriptures had said, Whom the heavens must receive until the destruction of all things, instead of “Whom the heavens must receive until the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:2121Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. (Acts 3:21)); and again, “Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool” (Acts 2:34, 3534For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 35Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (Acts 2:34‑35)). The Apostle Paul, in writing to the Romans, tells them that he would not have them ignorant of the coming of the Lord and the restoration of Israel, lest they should be wise in their own conceits (Rom. 11:25-2725For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Romans 11:25‑27)).
En-gannim (fountain of gardens). ―1, a town of Judah (Josh. 15:3434And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, (Joshua 15:34)); the name of several places in Palestine; 2, a town in Issachar appropriated to the Levites (Josh. 19:2121And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez; (Joshua 19:21)).
En-gedi (fountain of the kid). ―On the western shore of the Dead Sea; one of the places mentioned where fishermen will spread their nets, when the sulphurous water of the Dead Sea shall be healed by the river of God flowing into it (Ezek. 47:1, 121Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. (Ezekiel 47:1)
12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezekiel 47:12); see also Psa. 46:4; 65:9; 72:84There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. (Psalm 46:4)
9Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. (Psalm 65:9)
8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. (Psalm 72:8); Joel 3:1818And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18); Zech. 14:8-118And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. 10All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. 11And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. (Zechariah 14:8‑11)).
En-haddah (sharp, i.e., quick fountain). ―A town on the border of Issachar (Josh. 19:2121And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez; (Joshua 19:21)).
En-hazor (fountain of Hazor). ―A fenced City in Naphtali (Josh. 19:3737And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, (Joshua 19:37)).