Gen 42:9-12, 31, 2Sa 10:3, 1Ch 19:3 | TSK | STEP | remembered. Ye are spies.Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day. nakedness.

Genesis 42:9-12

remembered.

Ye are spies.Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day.

9,16,30,31,34; Nu 13:2,16-20; Jos 2:1; 6:23; Jud 1:24; 1Sa 26:4

Lu 20:20; Heb 11:31

nakedness.

Ex 32:35

27:29,37; 37:8; 44:9; 1Sa 26:17; 1Ki 18:7

We are, etc.We do not belong to different tribes; and it is not likely that one family would make a hostile attempt upon a whole kingdom; nor, if any serious design had been intended, that one man would have sent his sons on so hazardous an expedition.

true men.

19,33,34; Joh 7:18; 2Co 6:4

nakedness.

Genesis 42:31

true.

2 Samuel 10:3

Thinkest thou that David doth. Heb. In thine eyes dothDavid. not.

Ge 42:9,16; 1Co 13:5,7

1 Chronicles 19:3

but the princes.

1Sa 29:4,9; 1Ki 12:8-11

Thinkest thou that David. Heb. In thine eyes doth David.

1Co 13:5-7

to search.

Ge 42:9-18; Jos 2:1-3; Jud 1:23,24; 18:2,8-10