Genesis 42:1-38
THE FIRST VISIT OF JOSEPH'S BRETHREN TO EGYPT 1. When Jacob saw] The caravans which travelled from Egypt to Syria would bring the news to Hebron.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST VISIT OF JOSEPH'S BRETHREN TO EGYPT 1. When Jacob saw] The caravans which travelled from Egypt to Syria would bring the news to Hebron.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dr. Thomson, in 'The Land and the Book,' says he has often met large parties with their donkeys going from Palestine to Egypt in time of drought for food. Jacob's sons no doubt took servants with them and many asses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joseph, now a middle-aged man, was dressed as an Egyptian, and spoke in Egyptian through an interpreter (Genesis 42:23). His brethren, on the other hand, would not have changed in appearance.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE _are_ SPIES] Egypt was always liable to attack from Asia, and fortresses were built along that frontier to repel invasion. By suggesting that they were foreigners who were spying out the nakedness of the land, i.e. how far it was open to attack from hostile nations, Joseph had an opportunity of e... [ Continue Reading ]
WE _are_ ALL ONE MAN'S SONS.. THY SERVANTS ARE NO SPIES] This was a strong argument. No father would have risked the lives of all his children at once on such dangerous work as that of spies.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Is_ NOT] i.e. is not alive, meaning Joseph.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joseph perseveres in this charge in order to have a pretext for getting Benjamin to Egypt. He hoped too, perhaps, that his father would follow when his favourite son had left him.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE LIFE OF PHARAOH] a common Egyptian oath: cp. 'As I live saith the Lord,' also 2 Kings 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
I FEAR GOD] 'and so will not punish on mere suspicion' (D.).... [ Continue Reading ]
Conscience arouses in the brethren the fear that the day of reckoning, so long delayed, has come at last.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE INN] This would be no more than a mere shelter or camping place. Even now, when journeying in out-of-the-way parts in the East, travellers take their own food and bedding with them.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THESE THINGS ARE AGAINST ME] So Jacob thought; but Providence was working out a merciful provision for the welfare of himself and his family.... [ Continue Reading ]