Genesis 42
1 Jacob sends his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt.16 They are imprisoned by Joseph for spies.18 They are set at liberty, on condition to bring Benjamin.21 They have remorse for Joseph.24 Simeon is kept for a pledge.25 They return with corn, and their money.29 Their relation to Jacob.36 Jacob refuses to send Benjamin. when Jacob.41:54,57; Ac 7:12saw. i.e, heard, from the report of others, that there wasplenty in Egypt. The operations of one sense are frequently put for those of another in Hebrew; (see the Parallel Passages.) 2; Ex 5:19; 20:18; 1Ki 19:3; Ho 5:13; Ga 2:7Why do ye.Jos 7:10; 2Ki 8:3,4; Ezr 10:4; Jer 8:14 get you.43:2,4; 45:9that we.43:8; Ps 118:17; Isa 38:1; Mt 4:4 5,13 Benjamin.35:16-19Lest.38; 3:22; 11:4; 33:1,2; 43:14,29; 44:20-22,27-34 for.12:10; 26:1; 41:57; Ac 7:11; 11:28 governor.{Shallit,} an intendant, protector, ruler, from {shalat,} to be over or a protector, to rule: hence the Arabic {salita,} to obtain and exercise dominion, rule; and {sultân,} ruler, lord, prince, and king. 41:40,41; 45:8,26; Ps 105:16-21; Ac 7:10he it was.41:55,56bowed.18:2; 19:1; 37:7,9; 44:14; Re 3:9 roughly unto them. Heb. hard things with them.9-12,14-17,19,20; Mt 15:23-26 but they knew.Lu 24:16; Joh 20:14; 21:4 remembered.37:5-9Ye 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 26:4Lu 20:20; Heb 11:31nakedness.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.9 Thy servants.11,32; 29:32-35; 30:6-24; 35:16-26; 43:7; 46:8-27; Ex 1:2-5Nu 1:1-54; 10:1-36; 26:1-65; 34:1-29; 1Ch 2:1-8:40one is not.36,38; 37:30; 44:20,28; 45:26; Jer 31:15; La 5:7; Mt 2:16,18 9-11; Job 13:24; 19:11; Mt 15:21-28 By the life.7,12,16,30; De 6:13; 1Sa 1:26; 17:55; 20:3; Jer 5:2,7; Mt 5:33-37Mt 23:16-22; Jas 5:12except.20,34; 43:3; 44:20-34 kept in prison. Heb. bound.19 put. Heb. gathered.Isa 24:22; Ac 5:18ward.40:4,7; 41:10; Le 24:12; Ps 119:65; Ac 4:3; Heb 12:10 I fear God.20:11; Le 25:43; Ne 5:9,15; Lu 18:2,4 house.40:3; Isa 42:7,22; Jer 37:15carry corn.1,2,26; 41:56; 43:1,2; 45:23 bring.15,34; 43:5,19; 44:23And they.26; 6:22; Joh 2:5 they said.41:9; Nu 32:23; 2Sa 12:13; 1Ki 17:18; Job 33:27,28; 34:31,32Job 36:8,9; Ho 5:15; Mt 27:3,4; Mr 9:44,46,48; Lu 16:28; Ac 19:18we saw.37:23-28; Jud 1:7; Pr 21:13; 24:11,12; 28:17; Jer 2:17,19; 4:18Jer 34:17; Mt 7:2; 1Jo 1:9; Jas 2:13this distress.Pr 1:27,28 Spake I.37:21,22,29,30; Lu 23:41; Ro 2:15his blood.4:10; 9:5,6; 1Ki 2:32; 2Ch 24:22; Ps 9:12; Eze 3:18; Lu 11:50,51Ac 28:4; Re 13:10; 16:9 he spake unto them by a interpreter. Heb. an interpreter wasbetween them. The {mailitz} does not seem to have been an interpreter in our sense of the term; as we have many evidences in this book that the Egyptians, Hebrews, Canaanites, and Syrians, could understand each other in a general way; and it appears from several passages in this very chapter, (particularly ver. 24,) that Joseph and his brethren understood each others' language, as his brethren and Joseph's steward also did (ch. 43:19, etc; compare ch. 39; 49.) It seems to denote an officer who is called in Abyssinia, according to Mr. Bruce, {Kal Hatzé,} "the voice or word of the king," who always stands at the side of a lattice window of a balcony, within which the king sits; who is never seen, but who speaks through a hole in the side of it, covered in the inside with a curtain, to this officer, by whom he speaks to the persons present. Joh 16:13,14; 2Co 5:20 wept.43:30; Isa 63:9; Lu 19:41; Ro 12:15; 1Co 12:26; Heb 4:15Simeon.34:25; 49:5-7; Jude 1:22,23 commanded.44:1,2; Isa 55:1to give them.45:21; Mt 6:33and thus.Mt 5:44; Ro 12:17-21; 1Pe 3:9 26 the inn.43:21; 44:11; Ex 4:24; Lu 2:7; 10:34inn.{Malon,} from {loon,} to stay, abide, lodge, denotes any place to stay and lodge in, particularly a place where travellers usually stop to lodge, which is generally near a well, where they fill their {girbehs,} or leathern bottles, with fresh water, and having unladen and clogged their camels, asses, etc., permit them to crop any little verdure there may be in the place, keeping watch over them by turns. Our word inn here gives us a false idea, there were no such places of entertainment in the desert which Joseph's brethren had to pass; nor are there any at the present day. The only accommodation such a place affords is either a well, or a {khan,} or {caravanserai,} which is generally no more than four bare walls, perfectly exposed, the place being open at the top, and furnishing a wretched lodging: and even these, it is probable, were not in use at this early period. their heart.36; 27:33; Le 26:36; De 28:65; 1Ki 10:5; Ps 61:2; So 5:6Lu 21:26failed them. Heb. went forth.This refers to the spasmodic affection which is felt in the breast at any sudden alarm or fright. What is.Isa 45:7; La 2:17; 3:37; Am 3:6 29 roughly to us. Heb. with us hard things.7-20 true.11 twelve brethren.13 15,19,20 traffick.34:10,21; 1Ki 10:15; Eze 17:4 every man's.27,28; 43:21 Me have ye.37:20-35; 43:14all these things are against me.{Alay hayoo cullanah,} literally, "upon me are all these things:" rendered by the Vulgate, {in me hæc omnia mala reciderunt,} "all these evils fall back upon me;" they lie upon me as heavy loads, hastening my death: they are more than I can bear. 45:28; 47:12; 1Sa 27:1; Job 7:7; Ps 34:19; Ec 7:8; Isa 27:9; 38:10Isa 41:10,13,14; Mt 14:31; Ro 8:28,31; 1Co 10:13; 2Co 4:17Jas 5:7-11 Slay my.43:9; 44:32-34; 46:9; Mic 6:7 his brother.13; 30:22-24; 35:16-18; 37:33,35; 44:20,27-34if mischief.4; 44:29bring.37:35; 44:29,31; 1Ki 2:6; Ps 71:18; 90:10; Ec 1:14; 2:26; Isa 38:10Isa 46:4
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