Gen 12:1-7, 20:3, 37:5-10, 40:8, 41:1-7, 11, Num 12:6, Judg 7:13-14, Est 6:1 | TSK | STEP | God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ. He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan. He journeys through Canaan, which is promised to him in a vision. He is driven by famine into Egypt. Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her. He reproves Abram, whom he dismisses. had. Get.

Canaan.So called from Canaan the son of Ham, lies between the Mediterranean sea on the west, the wilderness of Paran, Idumea, and Egypt on the south, the mountains of Arabia on the east, and the mountains of Lebanon and Phoenicia on the north. Its length, from Dan to Beersheba, is about 200 miles, and its breadth, from the Mediterranean sea to its eastern borders, about 90.

passed.

Heb 11:9

Sichem.

33:18; 34:2; 35:4; Jos 20:7; 24:32; Jud 9:1; 1Ki 12:1

Shechem.

Joh 4:5

Sychar.

Ac 7:16

Sychem. plain.The word rendered "plain" should be rendered "oak," or according to Celsius, the "turpentine-tree."

Moreh.

De 11:30; Jud 7:1

Canaanite.

10:15,18,19; 13:7; 15:18-21

appeared.

17:1; 18:1; 32:30

Unto thy.

13:15; 17:3,8; 26:3; 28:13; Ex 33:1; Nu 32:11; De 1:8; 6:10; 30:20

Ps 105:9-12; Ro 9:8; Ga 3:16; 4:28

builded.

8; 8:20; 13:4,18; 26:25; 33:20; Heb 11:13

Genesis 20:3

a dream.

28:12; 31:24; 37:5,9; 40:8; 41:1-36; Job 4:12,13; 33:15; Mt 1:20

Mt 2:12,13; 27:19

a dead.

7; Ps 105:14; Eze 33:14,15; Jon 3:4

a man's wife. Heb. married to an husband.

Genesis 37:5-10

dreamed.

28:12; 40:5; 41:1; 42:9; Nu 12:6; Jud 7:13,14; 1Ki 3:5; Ps 25:14

Da 2:1; 4:5; Joe 2:28; Am 3:7

and they.

4,8; 49:23; Joh 17:14

Hear.

44:18; Jud 9:7

your sheaves.

42:6,9; 43:26; 44:14,19

obeisance.

Php 2:10; Col 1:18

reign over us.

4; Ex 2:14; 1Sa 10:27; 17:28; Ps 2:3-6; 118:22; Lu 19:14; 20:17

Ac 4:27,28; 7:35; Heb 10:29

another dream.

7; 41:25,32

the sun.

10; 43:28; 44:14,19; 45:9; 46:29; 47:12; 50:15-21; Ac 7:9-14

stars.

Da 8:10; Php 2:15

Shall I.

27:29; Isa 60:14; Php 2:10,11

Genesis 40:8

Do not, etc.

41:15,16; Job 33:15,16; Ps 25:14; Isa 8:19; Da 2:11,28,47; 4:8

Da 5:11-15; 1Co 12:10,11; Am 3:7

Genesis 41:1-7

1 Pharaoh has two dreams.

9 Joseph interprets them.

33 He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.

46 The seven years of plenty.

50 He begets children.

53 The famine begins.

A.M. 2289. B.C. 1715. two full years.{Shenathayim yamim,} "two years of days," two complete solar revolutions; as a month of days is a full month.

29:14

that Pharaoh.

20:3; 37:5-10; 40:5; Jud 7:13,14; Es 6:1; Job 33:15,16; Da 2:1-3

Da 4:5-18; 7:1-8:27; Mt 27:19

the river.

31:21; Ex 1:22; 4:9; De 11:10; Isa 19:5; Eze 29:3,9

there came.

17-27

a meadow.Or, rather, "on, or among the reeds or sedges;" for so {achoo} is generally supposed to denote (see Job 8:11); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, {a jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as "having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves."

ill favoured.

4,20,21

So Pharaoh awoke.

1Ki 3:15

seven ears.A species of wheat, which grows in Egypt, bears, when perfect, seven ears on one stalk, as its natural conformation. It differs from ours in having a solid stem, or at least a stem full of pith, in order to yield sufficient nourishment and support to so great a weight as the ears which it bears.

rank. Heb. fat.

De 32:14

blasted.

Eze 17:10; 19:12; Ho 13:15

a dream.

20:3; 37:5

Genesis 41:11

40:5-8

Numbers 12:6

a prophet.

Ge 20:7; Ex 7:1; Ps 105:15; Mt 23:31,34,37; Lu 20:6; Eph 4:11

Re 11:3,10

in a vision.

Ge 15:1; 46:2; Job 4:13; 33:15; Ps 89:19; Eze 1:1; Da 8:2

Da 10:8,16,17; Lu 1:11,22; Ac 10:11,17; 22:17,18

a dream.

Ge 31:10,11; 1Ki 3:5; Jer 23:28; Da 7:1; Mt 1:20; 2:12,13,19

Judges 7:13-14

lo, a cake.

3:15,31; 4:9,21; 6:15; Isa 41:14,15; 1Co 1:27

his fellow.

Nu 22:38; 23:5,20; 24:10-13; Job 1:10

into his hand.

Ex 15:14,15; Jos 2:9,24; 5:1; 2Ki 7:6,7

Esther 6:1

1 Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.

4 Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives counsel that he might do him honour.

12 Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final destiny.

that night.

5:8; Ge 22:14; 1Sa 23:26,27; Isa 41:17; Ro 11:33

could not the king sleep. Heb. the king's sleep fled away.

Da 2:1; 6:18

the book of records.As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more instructive and interesting work could not be brought before the king; because they were all written in verse, and were generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.

2:23; Mal 3:16