Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
when Jacob.
Genesis 41:54,57 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph …
Acts 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our …
saw. i.e, heard, from the report of others, that there was plenty in Egypt. The operations of one sense are frequently put for those of another in Hebrew; (see the Parallel Passages.)
2
Exodus 5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were …
Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunder, and the lightning, and the noise …
1 Kings 19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to …
Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went …
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision …
Why do ye.
Joshua 7:10 And the LORD said to Joshua, Get you up; why lie you thus on your face?
2 Kings 8:3,4 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned …
Ezra 10:4 Arise; for this matter belongs to you: we also will be with you: …
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the …
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
get you.
Genesis 43:2,4 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had …
Genesis 45:9 Haste you, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus said your …
that we.
Genesis 43:8 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we …
Psalm 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Isaiah 38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet …
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread …
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Benjamin.
Genesis 35:16-19 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to …
Lest.
Genesis 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is …
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to …
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top …
Genesis 33:1,2 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, …
Genesis 43:14,29 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send …
Genesis 44:20-22,27-34 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child …
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
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 sult?n, ruler, lord, prince, and king.
Genesis 41:40,41 You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all …
Genesis 45:8,26 So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made …
Psalm 105:16-21 Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff …
Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor …
he it was.
Genesis 41:55,56 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to …
bowed.
Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, see, three men stood by …
Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate …
Genesis 37:7,9 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, see, my sheaf …
Genesis 44:14 And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; for he was yet …
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
remembered.
Genesis 37:5-9 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brothers: and they …
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.
Genesis 42:9,16,30,31,34 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said …
Numbers 13:2,16-20 Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give …
Joshua 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, …
Joshua 6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, …
Judges 1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said …
1 Samuel 26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
Luke 20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves …
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, …
nakedness.
Exodus 32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Genesis 27:29,37 Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your …
Genesis 37:8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or …
Genesis 44:9 With whomsoever of your servants it be found, both let him die, and …
1 Samuel 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son …
1 Kings 18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew …
We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Thy servants.
Genesis 42:11,32 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, your servants are no spies…
Genesis 29:32-35 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: …
Genesis 30:6-24 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, …
Genesis 35:16-26 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to …
Genesis 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straightly of our state, and of our …
Genesis 46:8-27 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into …
Exodus 1:2-5 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah…
Numbers 1:1-54 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle …
Numbers 10:1-36 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Numbers 26:1-65 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses …
Numbers 34:1-29 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
1 Chronicles 2:1-8:40 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, …
one is not.
Genesis 42:36,38 And Jacob their father said to them, Me have you bereaved of my children: …
Genesis 37:30 And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and …
Genesis 44:20,28 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child …
Genesis 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over …
Jeremiah 31:15 Thus said the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and …
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Matthew 2:16,18 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding …
And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
By the life.
Genesis 42:7,12,16,30 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange …
Deuteronomy 6:13 You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name.
1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman …
1 Samuel 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said …
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
Jeremiah 5:2,7 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely…
Matthew 5:33-37 Again, you have heard that it has been said by them of old time, …
Matthew 23:16-22 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the …
James 5:12 But above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, …
except.
Genesis 42:20,34 But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, …
Genesis 43:3 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, …
Genesis 44:20-34 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child …
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
And he put them all together into ward three days.
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
house.
Genesis 40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, …
Isaiah 42:7,22 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, …
Jeremiah 37:15 Why the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put …
carry corn.
Genesis 42:1,2,26 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his …
Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened …
Genesis 43:1,2 And the famine was sore in the land…
Genesis 45:23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten donkeys laden with …
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
they said.
Genesis 41:9 Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my …
Numbers 32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD: …
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan …
1 Kings 17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of …
Job 33:27,28 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …
Job 34:31,32 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I …
Job 36:8,9 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction…
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, …
Matthew 27:3,4 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, …
Mark 9:44,46,48 Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched…
Luke 16:28 For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they …
Acts 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.
we saw.
Genesis 37:23-28 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brothers, that they …
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …
Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …
Proverbs 24:11,12 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those …
Proverbs 28:17 A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to …
Jeremiah 2:17,19 Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken …
Jeremiah 4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this …
Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore thus said the LORD; You have not listened to me, in proclaiming …
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what …
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
this distress.
Proverbs 1:27,28 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as …
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Spake I.
Genesis 37:21,22,29,30 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and …
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: …
Romans 2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience …
his blood.
Genesis 4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood …
Genesis 9:5,6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of …
1 Kings 2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on …
2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his …
Psalm 9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets …
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him …
Luke 11:50,51 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation …
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, …
Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills …
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of …
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
he spake unto them by a interpreter. Heb. an interpreter was between 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.
Genesis 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to …
Genesis 43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed …
John 16:13,14 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you …
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech …
And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
wept.
Genesis 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn on his brother: and …
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or …
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling …
Simeon.
Genesis 34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two …
Genesis 49:5-7 Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations…
Jude 1:22,23 And of some have compassion, making a difference…
Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
commanded.
Genesis 44:1,2 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's …
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has …
to give them.
Genesis 45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according …
Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …
and thus.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do …
Romans 12:17-21 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the …
1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise …
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
laded their asses.
Genesis 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, …
Genesis 24:35 And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: …
Genesis 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, …
Genesis 32:5,15 And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: …
Genesis 34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their donkeys, and that …
Genesis 44:3,13 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and …
Genesis 45:17,23 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, This do you; lade …
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles …
2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, What mean you by these? And Ziba said, …
1 Chronicles 12:40 Moreover they that were near them, even to Issachar and Zebulun and …
2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, …
Nehemiah 13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, …
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, …
Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and …
And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
the inn.
Genesis 43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our …
Genesis 44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and …
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, …
Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling …
Luke 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, …
inn. {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.
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
their heart.
Genesis 42:36 And Jacob their father said to them, Me have you bereaved of my children: …
Genesis 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that …
Leviticus 26:36 And on them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into …
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the …
1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the …
Psalm 61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: …
Songs 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and …
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things …
failed them. Heb. went forth. This refers to the spasmodic affection which is felt in the breast at any sudden alarm or fright.
What is.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: …
Lamentations 2:17 The LORD has done that which he had devised; he has fulfilled his …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Me have ye.
Genesis 37:20-35 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, …
Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send …
all these things are against me. {Alay hayoo cullanah,} literally, upon me are all these things: rendered by the Vulgate, {in me h?c 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.
Genesis 45:28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will …
Genesis 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's …
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul…
Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers …
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the …
Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this …
Isaiah 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of …
Isaiah 41:10,13,14 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and …
Romans 8:28,31 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
1 Corinthians 10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but …
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us …
James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, …
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
his brother.
Genesis 42:13 And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one …
Genesis 30:22-24 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb…
Genesis 35:16-18 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to …
Genesis 37:33,35 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has …
Genesis 44:20,27-34 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child …
if mischief.
Genesis 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brothers; …
Genesis 44:29 And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall …
bring.
Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but …
Genesis 44:29,31 And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall …
1 Kings 2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head …
Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until …
Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason …
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, …
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …
Isaiah 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of …
Isaiah 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry …