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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Genesis 39:11

About this time, or, upon a certain day, which she thought convenient for the reason following. To do his business, that which belonged to his charge; to cast up his accounts, as the Chaldee renders it, which requiring privacy, gave her this opportunity. There was none of the men within, to wit, in that part of the house where Joseph was.

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See also Genesis 39:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Joseph in Potiphar’s House According to our reckoning, Perez and Zerah were born when Judah was in his twenty-eighth year, and therefore, Joseph in his twenty-fourth. Here, then, we go back seven y...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 39 JOSEPH IN EGYPT _ 1. In Potiphar's house (Genesis 39:1)_ 2. Tempted by Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39:7) 3. Joseph in prison (Genesis 39:19) Potiphar, the master of Joseph, was an officer

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 39. JOSEPH REPELS HIS MASTER'S WIFE, AND IS IMPRISONED ON HER FALSE ACCUSATION. This section is from J with touches from E. It is generally agreed that Potiphar. guard is an insertion in Genes...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The False Accusation 8. _knoweth not_, &c. Here, as in Genesis 39:6, the marg., _knoweth not with me what is_, gives the meaning of the passage....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Joseph as Prisoner in Egypt_ (Genesis 39:1 to Genesis 41:45). 39 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh'S, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE SPAKE TO JOSEPH DAY BY DAY, THAT HE HEARKENED NOT UNTO HER, TO LIE BY HER, OR TO BE WITH HER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    39:11 day (b-5) Or 'at this time.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH IN THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR 5. Overseer] rather, 'house-steward.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 39 JOSEPH IN POTIPHAR’S HOUSE V1 The Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt. Now Potiphar was an Egyptian. He was an officer of *Pharaoh, who was the k...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִי֙ כְּ הַ יֹּ֣ום הַ זֶּ֔ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JOSEPH IN PRISON Genesis 39:1 "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life."- James 1:12 DRAMATISTS and novelists, who make it their busines...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSEPH IN POTIPHAR'S HOUSE Genesis 39:1 Ungodly families and employers owe more than they realize to the presence in their homes and businesses of those who love God; for God comes with His servants....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the story of Joseph in Egypt which is so full of interest. Through the malice of his brethren he had been sold into slavery and in such condition we now see him. Here, at the very beginnin...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    FLEEING FROM TEMPTATION"And Joseph was handsome in form and appearance." This simple statement at the end of verse six introduces the reason for another serious problem which was to arise in Joseph's...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Proverbs 7:25 Observe, the pointed contempt on the religion of Joseph; first, the Hebrew, in order to heighten the offence she charged him with after. And is it not so now? Are not the blemishes, or...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Job 24:15....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And it came to pass about this time_. That is, in the process of time, seeing she will not desist from soliciting holy Joseph, it happens at length, that she adds force to blandishments. Now, Mose...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 THROUGH 41. What follows from chapter 37 is the interesting history of Joseph, to which even children ever yield a ready ear, although ignorant of all the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT CAME TO PASS ABOUT THIS TIME,.... About a week, or a month, or rather a year, as Aben Ezra thinks, after she first began her solicitations to him. According to Josephus r, it was a public festi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went into the house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of the house there within. Ver. 11. _To do his business._] To look up his bi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _She spake to Joseph from day to day_ Joseph was single, was in the vigour of youth, was a man of like passions with us, was solicited and importuned to gratify those passions, and that in a way that...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ioseph aduanced in Potiphars house. 7 Hee resisteth his mistresses temptation. 13 He is falsly accused. 19 Hee is cast in prison. 21 God is with him there. 1 AND Ioseph was brought downe to Egy...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it came to pass about this time that Joseph went in to the house to do his business, a day came when he came to the house to attend to his work; AND THERE WAS NONE OF THE MEN OF THE HOUSE THERE WI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOSEPH FLEES FROM TEMPTATION...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION _Joseph in Potiphar’s house and in prison. His sufferings on account of his virtue, and his apparent destruction._ GENESIS 39:1-23 1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH--A SUFFERER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS How good it is to turn from Judah's sordid history to consider Joseph's history of faithful devotedness to the Lord! The deepest blessing for us in this is of cour...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 Beauty either in men or women, often proves a snare both to themselves and others. This forbids pride in it, and requires constant watchfulness against the temptation that attends it. We have gr...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    In Genesis 1:23 Satan uses Potiphar's wife, and in Genesis 1:23 he uses Pharaoh's chief butler. The former he used to put Joseph into the dungeon; and the latter he used to keep him there, through his...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 39:11 time H3117 went H935 (H8799) house H1004 do H6213 (H8800) work H4399 men H376...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH IS SOLD INTO SLAVERY, RESISTS TEMPTATION AND STRANGELY PROSPERS IN PRISON (GENESIS 39:1). That what now happens to Joseph is in the hands of Yahweh is abundantly made clear (Genesis 38:2; Genes...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joseph tested in Egypt in the house of Potiphar. CHARACTERS: Joseph, Potiphar, Potiphar's wife, prison keeper. CONCLUSION: Loyalty to God may bring a believer into serious testings but the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 39:1. _Potiphar._ What a providence, that Joseph was bought by a man in whom Pharaoh had placed very much confidence. _Captain of the guard._ He seems to have been a military superintendent of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?_ JOSEPH’S RESISTANCE We are accustomed to admire the mere act of resistance to temptation, by whomsoever and howsoever offered. But there is a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 39:1 In Egypt, Joseph maintains his integrity by refusing to lie with Potiphar’s wife, which results in his being wrongfully imprisoned. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 39:9. Sin against God.] Joseph uses the common name for God in addressing this Egyptian.— GENESIS 39:11. ABOUT THIS TIME.] Heb. _At this day._ The day on which the occurrenc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 39:7 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS,—Joseph had by this time been nearly ten years in Potiphar's house (vide Genesis 41:46)—THAT HIS MASTER'S WIFE CAST HER EYES (lascivious...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we get back in chapter thirty-nine to the story again. This is just a little interlude and it is just sort of a parenthetical-kind of a thing thrown in and now we get back to Joseph. Joseph was br...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    none of the men. Job 24:15 Proverbs 9:17 Jeremiah 23:24 Malachi 3:5 Ephesian

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JOSEPH, SERVANT OF POTIPHAR Genesis 39:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a chapter that is thrown in between the story of Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites, and Joseph bought by Potiphar and made a servan...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JOSEPH REJECTED BY HIS BRETHREN Genesis 37:20 _-Genesis 39:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we proceed to consider Joseph, as rejected of his brethren, there will be discovered an outline of Christ rejected...

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