Genesis 43:1
_AND THE FAMINE WAS SORE IN THE LAND._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FAMINE WAS SORE IN THE LAND._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY HAD EATEN UP THE CORN WHICH THEY HAD BROUGHT OUT OF EGYPT, THEIR FATHER SAID UNTO THEM, GO AGAIN, BUY US A LITTLE FOOD._ Father said ... Go again, buy us a little food. This seems to have been after the lapse of a year (Genesis 45:6). It was no easy matter to bring J... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JUDAH SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, THE MAN DID SOLEMNLY PROTEST UNTO US, SAYING, YE SHALL NOT SEE MY FACE, EXCEPT YOUR BROTHER BE WITH YOU._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEIR FATHER ISRAEL SAID UNTO THEM, IF IT MUST BE SO NOW, DO THIS; TAKE OF THE BEST FRUITS IN THE LAND IN YOUR VESSELS, AND CARRY DOWN THE MAN A PRESENT, A LITTLE BALM, AND A LITTLE HONEY, SPICES, AND MYRRH, NUTS, AND ALMONDS:_ Take of the best fruits ... a present, х_ MIZIMRAT_ (H2173) _ HAA'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TAKE DOUBLE MONEY IN YOUR HAND; AND THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT AGAIN IN THE MOUTH OF YOUR SACKS, CARRY IT AGAIN IN YOUR HAND; PERADVENTURE IT WAS AN OVERSIGHT:_ Take double money - the first sum to be returned, and another sum for a new supply. The restored money in the sack's mouth was a perp... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE ALSO YOUR BROTHER, AND ARISE, GO AGAIN UNTO THE MAN:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD ALMIGHTY GIVE YOU MERCY BEFORE THE MAN, THAT HE MAY SEND AWAY YOUR OTHER BROTHER, AND BENJAMIN. IF I BE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREAVED._ God Almighty give you mercy. Jacob is here committing them all to the care of God, and, resigned to what GOD ALMIGHTY GIVE YOU MERCY. Jacob is he... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN TOOK THAT PRESENT, AND THEY TOOK DOUBLE MONEY IN THEIR HAND, AND BENJAMIN; AND ROSE UP, AND WENT DOWN TO EGYPT, AND STOOD BEFORE JOSEPH._ Stood before Joseph. We may easily imagine the delight with which, amid the crowd of other applicants, the eye of Joseph would fix on his brethren a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN WERE AFRAID, BECAUSE THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO JOSEPH'S HOUSE; AND THEY SAID, BECAUSE OF THE MONEY THAT WAS RETURNED IN OUR SACKS AT THE FIRST TIME ARE WE BROUGHT IN; THAT HE MAY SEEK OCCASION AGAINST US, AND FALL UPON US, AND TAKE US FOR BONDMEN, AND OUR ASSES._ The men were afraid. Thei... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CAME NEAR TO THE STEWARD OF JOSEPH'S HOUSE, AND THEY COMMUNED WITH HIM AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND SAW HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN, HIS MOTHER'S SON, AND SAID, IS THIS YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER, OF WHOM YE SPAKE UNTO ME? AND HE SAID, GOD BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEE, MY SON._ Benjamin, his mother's son, х_ BEN_ (H1121) _ 'IMOW_ (H517)] - his uterine brother.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH MADE HASTE; FOR HIS BOWELS DID YEARN UPON HIS BROTHER: AND HE SOUGHT WHERE TO WEEP; AND HE ENTERED INTO HIS CHAMBER, AND WEPT THERE._ Joseph said, Set on bread - equivalent to-have dinner served, bread being a term inclusive of all food. The table was a small stool, most probably in the... [ Continue Reading ]