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- The Ten Brothers Were Tested
Joseph has had the satisfaction of seeing his brother Benjamin safe
and well. He has heard his brothers acknowledging their guilt
concerning himself. He resolves to put...
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CHAPTER 44 THE FEIGNED DISMAY AND THE BRINGING BACK
_ 1. The cup concealed and the dismay (Genesis 44:1)_
2. The return to Joseph's house (Genesis 44:14)...
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GENESIS 44. BENJAMIN IS ACCUSED OF STEALING JOSEPH'S SILVER CUP, AND
JUDAH PLEADS WITH JOSEPH TO PUNISH HIM INSTEAD OF BENJAMIN. The
narrative is from J. Joseph arranges this final test that he may be...
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_my bondman_ Joseph's steward, while accepting the terms, mitigates
their severity. He proposes that the offender, if apprehended, shall
alone be punished, not with death, but with slavery. Joseph's b...
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The Divining Cup
1. _with food, as much as they can carry_ The "food" means corn; and
by special favour the corn is not given them by price, but on a more
generous scale; as much as they could carry....
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LET IT BE ACCORDING UNTO YOUR WORDS— There appears a contradiction
in this translation; the steward offering to accept their terms, and
yet immediately proposing different ones; compare the ninth vers...
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3. _Joseph as Prime Minister of Egypt_ (Genesis 41:46 to Genesis
47:31)
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,...
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_BEHOLD, THE MONEY, WHICH WE FOUND IN OUR SACKS' MOUTHS, WE BROUGHT
AGAIN UNTO THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN: HOW THEN SHOULD WE STEAL
OUT OF THY LORD'S HOUSE SILVER OR GOLD?_
No JFB commentary on t...
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THE FINAL TEST OF JOSEPH'S BRETHREN
2. Put my cup.. in the sack's mouth of the youngest] Joseph evidently
did this as an excuse for keeping Benjamin with him. Perhaps, too, it
was a test of the breth...
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The brothers were certain that they had not taken the cup. They
proposed that anyone who had the cup should die. They proposed that
all the other brothers should become slaves. If the manager agreed t...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 44
JOSEPH’S PLOT AGAINST HIS BROTHERS
V1 Then Joseph *commanded the manager of his house. He said to him,
‘Fill the men’s bags with grain. Give t...
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וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר גַּם ־עַתָּ֥ה כְ
דִבְרֵיכֶ֖ם כֶּן
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VISITS OF JOSEPH'S BRETHREN
Genesis 42:1; Genesis 43:1; Genesis 44:1
"Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought
evil against me; but God meant it unto good."-...
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JOSEPH'S CUP IN BENJAMIN'S SACK
Genesis 44:1
It is a terrible revelation when our Benjamins are found possessed of
the cup. They have been so loved, so favored, so screened; they have
never been guil...
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Occasionally, criticism of Joseph's action in placing the money and
his cup in the sacks of his brethren has been made. To put the matter
in the mildest form, surely such criticism reveals a lack of h...
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A TEST FOR JOSEPH'S BROTHERS
Once again, Joseph told his steward to fill the sacks with grain and
place each man's money in his sack. However, he also told him to put
his silver cup in the mouth of B...
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Renting the garment is an eastern token of great distress. Genesis
37:29....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 42 THROUGH 47.
At the same time another scene presents itself. His brethren, who had
rejected him, forced by famine, are brought, by the path of repentance
an...
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AND HE SAID, NOW ALSO [LET] IT [BE] ACCORDING UNTO YOUR WORDS,.... Not
according to the full extent of their words, but according to a part
of them; that be only should be a servant that was found gui...
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And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
Ver. 10. _Shall be my servant,_] i.e., Mine, in my master's nam...
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1 Iosephs policie to stay his brethren.
14 Iudahs humble supplication to Ioseph.
1 AND hee commaunded the [NOTE: _Hebrew:_ him that was ouer his
house.] steward of his house, saying, Fill the mens s...
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The Test...
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And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words; he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. The
chief steward accepted their proposal, but with the modification...
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SEVENTH SECTION
_The second journey. Benjamin accompanying. Joseph maketh himself
known to his brethren. Their return. Jacob’s joy._
GENESIS 43-45
A. The trial of the brethren. Their repentance and...
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BENJAMIN ACCUSED WRONGFULLY
The wisdom of Joseph is seen now in such a way as to lead his brothers
to repentance without accusing them. He instructed his steward to fill
the brothers' sacks with food...
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1-17 Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they
envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if
they had the same want of feeling towards their father Jacob...
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Thus he moderates the conditions which they proposed, exempting the
innocent, and exchanging the deserved and offered death of the nocent
into slavery....
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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Genesis 44:10 said H559 (H8799) words H1697 H3651 found H4672 (H8735)
slave H5650 blameless H5355
he with wh
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‘And he said, “Let it now be as you have said. He with whom it is
found shall be my bondman, and you shall be blameless.'
“AS YOU HAVE SAID.” Not in the detail but in the fact of
punishment. The serva...
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CONTENTS: Joseph's brethren further tested. Arrest on charge of taking
a cup.
CHARACTERS: Joseph, Judah, Benjamin, steward.
CONCLUSION: Even in afflictions wherein the believer thinks himself
wronge...
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Genesis 44:2. _Put my cup._ A splendid cup decorated with devices; in
these cups the Egyptians fancied they could divine by the various
refractions of light on its mouldings. Sometimes they put polish...
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_The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack_
THE TRIALS OF THE INNOCENT
I. That there is sorrow, and sorrow on a vast scale, is a great
fact--a fact both too patent and too painful to be gainsaid. Joseph...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 44:1 Still disguising his true identity from
his brothers, Joseph sends them away after the meal. But he gives
instructions that his silver cup should be placed in the sack of...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 44:5. Whereby indeed he divineth.] “The ancient Egyptians,
and still more the Persians, practised a mode of divination from
goblets. Small pieces of gold and silver, together...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 44:1, GENESIS 44:2
AND HE (_i.e._ Joseph) COMMANDED THE STEWARD OF HIS
HOUSE,—literally, _him that was over his hoarse _...
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And so he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's
sacks (Genesis 44:1)
Well, let's see. "And he sat them before him according to birthright."
And he took and sent messes unto them...
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he with whom. Genesis 44:17 Genesis 44:33 Exodus 22:3 Matthew 18:24 M