Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Joseph's dying words were prophecy and assurance spoken in unshaken faith and confidence that God would surely visit Israel in bondage and bring them out of Egypt to the land sworn by oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Though honored in Egypt, he regarded it as a place of exile and identified his own future with Israel's return to Canaan, assuring the people that their time of deliverance would come. The saying repeats the promise made to Abraham and foretells Israel's deliverance, giving grounds for hope of aid and freedom from oppression despite Israel's unfaithfulness and the idolatry that had led them into Egypt.
The elders of Israel recalled and repeated these words to encourage and sustain sinking faith and hope of deliverance during cruel bondage under the two last tyrannical kings of Egypt. Those who trusted God expected Him soon to break the oppressor's yoke. The response was divided, for some who heard believed and hoped for deliverance, while many lost hope and would not hope when looking at their sad condition as slaves, under oppression, and when circumstances seemed to contradict the promise. The hope of deliverance based on these words was known to the Egyptians, who ridiculed it and spoke scornfully of the power of Israel's God to free them.
The dying promise of sure visitation and deliverance was remembered through evil days and sustained God's people in long waiting, keeping them steadfast through the night of persecution like men watching for morning until the day of deliverance broke. It gave the persecuted Hussites hope after long oppression, compared to the prediction that a century must pass before the day would break.