Gen 43 | TSK | STEP | Jacob is hardly persuaded to send Benjamin. Joseph entertains his brethren. They discover their fears to the steward. Joseph makes them a feast.

balm.For an explanation of the words {tzori, nechoth,} and {lot,} here rendered respectively balm, spices, and myrrh, see on ch. 37:25. {Devash,} honey, is supposed by some not to have been that produced by bees, but a syrup produced from ripe dates. The Jewish doctors observe, that the word in 2 Ch 31:5 signifies dates; and the Arabians, at this day, call the choicest dates preserved with butter, {dabous,} and the honey obtained from them, {dibs,} or {dabs.} {Benanim,} nuts signifies pistachio nuts, the finest thing found in Syria; but, according to the others, a small nut, the produce of a species of the turpentine tree. {Shekaidim} is certainly almonds.

honey.

Le 20:24

spices.

1Ki 10:15; So 4:10,14-16; 5:1; 8:14

double.

Ro 12:17; 13:8; 2Co 8:21; Php 4:8; 1Th 4:6; 5:21; Heb 13:8

mouth.

42:25,35

42:38

And God.

17:1; 22:14; 32:11-28; 39:21; Ezr 7:27; Ne 1:11; Es 4:16; Ps 37:5-7

Ps 85:7; 100:5; 119:41; Pr 1:1; 16:7; 21:1; Isa 49:13; Lu 1:50

Ac 7:10; 21:14; 1Ti 1:2,16; Tit 1:4; 2Jo 1:3

If I be, etc. or, and I, as I have been, etc.

Es 4:16

See on ver.

the ruler.

19; 15:2; 24:2-10; 39:4,5; 44:1

slay. Heb. kill a killing.

21:8; 26:30; 31:54; 1Sa 25:11{Tevoch taivach,} "slay a slaying," or make a great slaughter: let preparations be made for a great feast or entertainment. See a similar form of speech in ch. 31:54.

1Sa 25:11; Pr 9:2

dine with. Heb. eat.

the men.

42:21,28,35; Jud 13:22; Job 15:21; Ps 53:5; 73:16; Isa 7:2

Mt 14:26,27; Mr 6:16

seek occasion against us. Heb. Roll himself upon us.

De 22:14,17; Jud 14:4; Job 30:14; Ro 7:8

we came indeed down. Heb. coming down we came down.

3,7; 42:3,10,27,35

we came.

42:27-35

we have.

12; Ro 12:17; 13:8; Heb 13:5,18; 1Pe 2:12; 3:16

Peace.

Jud 6:23; 19:20; 1Sa 25:6; 1Ch 12:18; Ezr 4:17; Lu 10:5; 24:36

Joh 14:27; 20:19,21,26

I had your money. Heb. Your money came to me.{Caspechem ba ailai,} "your money comes to me:" as I am the steward, the cash for the corn belongs to me. Ye have no occasion to be apprehensive of any evil; the whole transaction is between myself and you; receive therefore the money as a present from "the God of your father," no matter whose hands he employs to convey it.

Simeon.

14; 42:24,36

18:4; 19:2; 24:32; Lu 7:44; Joh 13:4-17

11,16

bowed.

28; 27:29; 37:7-10,19,20; 42:6; Ps 72:9; Ro 14:11; Php 2:10,11

welfare. Heb. peace.

37:14; 41:16; Ex 18:7; Jud 18:15; 1Sa 17:22; 25:5; 1Ch 18:10

Is your father well. Heb. Is there peace to your father?the old.

42:11,13

bowed.

26; 37:7,9,10

made obeisance.

Ex 18:7; 2Sa 1:2; 14:4; 1Ki 1:16; 2Ch 24:17

mother's son.

30:22-24; 35:17,18

of whom.

42:11,13

God.

45:8; Jos 7:19; 2Ch 29:11; Ps 133:1,2; Mt 9:2,22; Mr 10:24

1Ti 1:2; Heb 13:1

my son.

Nu 6:25; Ps 111:4; 112:4; Isa 30:19; 33:2; Mal 1:9

his bowels.

1Ki 3:26; Jer 31:20; Ho 11:8; Php 1:8; 2:1; Col 3:12; 1Jo 3:17

wept there.

42:24; Joh 11:33-38; Ac 20:19,31,37; 2Ti 1:4

refrained.

45:1; Isa 42:14; Jer 31:16; 1Pe 3:10

bread.

eat bread.

16; 31:54

for that is an abomination.The Chaldee Paraphrast renders this clause, "Because the Hebrews eat the cattle which the Egyptians worship." But, as we learn from ver. 16, compared with this verse, that the provision for the entertainment of the Egyptians themselves was animal food, this reason cannot be just. The true reason seems to be that assigned by the LXX., [Bedlyma gar estin tois Aigyptiois pas poimén probaton:] "For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

46:34; Ex 8:26

44.12

messes.

2Sa 11:8

was five times.Sir John Chardin observes, that "in Persia, Arabia, and the Indies, there are some houses where they place several plates in large salvers, and set one of these before each person, or before two or three, according to the magnificence of each house. The great men of the state are always served by themselves, in the feasts that are made for them; and with great profusion, their part of each kind of provision being always double, treble, or a larger proportion of each kind of meat."

45:22; 1Sa 1:5; 9:22-24

were merry. Heb. drank largely.

Pr 31:6; Ec 9:7; 10:19; So 5:1; Hab 1:6; Mt 11:19; Joh 2:10