Gen 39 | TSK | STEP | Joseph is bought by Potiphar, and preferred in the family. He resists his mistress's temptation. He is falsely accused by her. He is cast into prison. God is with him there, and he is advanced by the keeper of prison. A.M. 2276. B.C. 1728. Joseph. the Ishmeelites.

a goodly person.{Yephaih toar, weephaih maraih,} "beautiful in person and beautiful in countenance." Joseph's beauty is so celebrated in the East, that a handsome man is frequently compared to him; and the Persian poets vie with each other in descriptions of his comeliness.

12:14,15; 29:17; 1Sa 16:12; 17:42; Ac 7:20

A.M. 2285. B.C. 1719. cast.

6:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Eze 23:5,6,12-16; Mt 5:28; 2Pe 2:14

1Jo 2:16

Lie.

2Sa 13:11; Pr 2:16; 5:9; 7:13; Jer 3:3; Eze 16:25,32,34

refused.

Pr 1:10; 2:10,16-19; 5:3-8; 6:20-25,29,32,33; 7:5,25-27; 9:13-18

Pr 22:14; 23:26-28

my master.

Pr 18:24

none.

24:2; Ne 6:11; Lu 12:48; 1Co 4:2; Tit 2:10

how then.

20:3,6; Le 20:10; 2Sa 11:27; Job 31:9-12,23; Pr 6:29,32

Jer 5:8,9; 1Co 6:9,10; Ga 5:19-21; Heb 13:4; Re 21:8; 22:15

sin.

42:18; Le 6:2; Nu 32:23; 2Sa 12:13; Ne 5:15; Ps 51:4; Jer 28:16

Jer 50:7; 1Jo 3:9

as she spake.

8; Pr 2:16; 5:3; 6:25,26; 7:5,13; 9:14,16; 22:14; 23:27

or to be.

Pr 1:15; 5:8; 1Co 6:18; 15:33; 1Th 5:22; 1Ti 5:14; 2Ti 2:22

1Pe 2:11

none of the men.

Job 24:15; Pr 9:17; Jer 23:24; Mal 3:5; Eph 5:3,12

caught.

8,10; Pr 7:13-27; Ec 7:26; Eze 16:30,31

and he left.

1Sa 15:27; Pr 1:15; 5:8; 6:5; Ec 7:26; Mr 14:51,52; 1Co 15:33

2Ti 2:22; 1Pe 2:11

he hath.The base affection of this woman being disappointed, was changed into rancorous hatred, and she exults in the opportunity of being revenged on Joseph. She begins her accusation in the affected language of offended modesty, rage, and disdain, by charging her husband, whom we may reasonably assume she did not greatly love, with being an accessory to the indignity she pretended to have received: "He hath brought in a Hebrew," a very abomination to an Egyptian, "to mock us," insult and treat me in a base, unworthy manner.

an Hebrew.

17; 10:21; 14:13; 40:15; Ps 120:3; Eze 22:5

he came.

7; Ps 35:11; 55:3; Pr 10:18; Isa 51:7; 54:17; Mt 5:11; 26:59; Lu 23:2

2Co 6:8; 1Pe 2:20; 3:14-18; 4:14-19

loud. Heb. great.

Ps 37:12,32; Jer 4:22; 9:3-5; Tit 3:3

14; Ex 20:16; 23:1; 1Ki 18:17; 21:9-13; Ps 37:14; 55:3; 120:2-4

Pr 12:19; 19:5,9; Mt 26:65

heard.

Job 29:16; Pr 18:17; 29:12; Ac 25:16; 2Th 2:11

his wrath.

4:5,6; Pr 6:34,35; So 8:7

into the prison.{Baith hassohar,} "the round house," from the form of the building according to some; or, "the watch or guard house," from the Arabic {sahara,} to watch, according to others.

40:15; 41:14; Ps 105:18,19; Isa 53:8; Da 3:21,22; 2Ti 2:9; 1Pe 2:19

the king's.

40:1-3,15; 41:9-14; Ps 76:10

the Lord.

2; 21:22; 49:23,24; Isa 41:10; 43:2; Da 6:22; Ro 8:31,32,37

1Pe 3:13,14,17; 4:14-16

shewed him mercy. Heb. extended kindness unto him. gavehim.

40:3; Ex 3:21; 11:3; 12:36; Ps 105:19,22; 106:46; Pr 16:7; Da 1:9

Ac 7:9,10

committed.

4,6,7,9; 40:3,4; 1Sa 2:30; Ps 37:3,11

keeper.

40:3,4

because.

2,3; 49:23,24; 1Sa 2:30; Ps 1:3; 37:3-11; Isa 43:2; Da 6:22