Gen. 37:24. The pit was empty, there was no water in it. Joseph's brethren intended to famish him, or kill him with hunger and thirst, and it was so ordered afterwards that they would have died with famine had not they come and bowed down to Joseph to the earth for relief. Gen. 37:28... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 37:28. "And they lift up Joseph out of the pit." Joseph was here a type of Christ; he was designed death by his own brethren, as Christ was; he was cast into a pit, whereby his death and burial was signified. He was lifted out again, and his resurrection was an occasion of their salvation from... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 37:31-33. Joseph's brethren deceive Jacob their father by the blood of a kid instead of his son Joseph's, his best beloved son; as he, being Esau's brother, had deceived Isaac his father with the flesh and skin of a kid, instead of his son Esau's skin and his venison, who was Isaac's best belov... [ Continue Reading ]