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Genesis 44:5

The Egyptians were much given to the use of divination. Perhaps the steward had such ideas of his master.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 44:5. _WHEREBY - HE DIVINETH?_] Divination by cups has been from time immemorial prevalent among the Asiatics; and for want of knowing this, commentators have spent a profusion of learn...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _whereby he indeed divineth_ "Divineth," Heb. _naḥash_: see Genesis 30:27; Deuteronomy 18:10, "useth divination"; 1 Kings 20:33 marg. The word shews that the silver cup was a sacred one, by means of w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEREBY INDEED HE DIVINETH— This cup, which the Septuagint call κονδυ, _kondu,_ the AEgyptian name for _a cup,_ was a goblet or bowl, it is thought, with a great belly. It is plain, this was a cup use...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IS NOT THIS IT IN WHICH MY LORD DRINKETH, AND WHEREBY INDEED HE DIVINETH? YE HAVE DONE EVIL IN SO DOING._ Is not this it - not only kept for the governor's personal use, but whereby he divineth. Div...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    44:5 divines? (a-15) See ch. 30.27....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WHEREBY INDEED HE divineth] Divination by means of bowls of water was very prevalent among the ancients. They appear to have had a superstitious fancy that if one gazed long into a cup, he would see f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘To find the truth by magic.’ Egyptians used to pour oil into water that was in a cup. Then they looked at the pattern of the oil. They thought that the pattern showed what was true. The *Hebrews did...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹ֣וא זֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁתֶּ֤ה אֲדֹנִי֙ בֹּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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."-...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and (b) whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. (b) Because the people thought he could divine, he attributes to himself that knowledg...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    To divine. This was spoken by Joseph to his steward in jest; alluding to the notion of the people, who took him to be a diviner. (Challoner) --- St. Thomas Aquinas, [Summa Theologiae] 2, 2, q. 195, a....

  • 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

    5._Whereby indeed, he divineth _(171) This clause is variously expounded. For some take it as if Joseph pretended that he consulted soothsayers in order to find out the thief. Others translate it, “by...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IS] NOT THIS [IT], IN WHICH MY LORD DRINKETH,.... Which was for his own particular use, and so the more ungrateful in them to take it, AND WHEREBY INDEED HE DIVINETH? according to our version and ot...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    __ Genesis 44:5 _[Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing._ Ver. 5. _And whereby indeed he divineth._] Junius reads it thus - _Et n...

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

    _Whereby indeed he divineth_ The original word may be rendered, _For which he would search thoroughly_, or, _Concerning which he would certainly divine_, or _make trial_ and discovery. As if he had sa...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? in order to play his role as Egyptian ruler to the end, Joseph has the steward represent the matter as though he practiced hyd...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Test...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DIVINETH?: Or, maketh trial...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Amongst the several kinds of divination in use among the Egyptians and other heathens, this was one, to do it by a cup or bason, which they filled with water, and put in them plates of silver, or prec...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 44:5 lord H113 drinks H8354 (H8799) indeed H5172 (H8763) divination H5172 (H8762) evil H7489 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And when they had left the city and were as yet no great distance Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them say to them, “Why have you rewarded evil for good?...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 44:3 MY LORD... PRACTICES DIVINATION. Since the steward’s remarks are in the context of deliberate deception, it is impossible to know whether he was saying that Joseph actuall...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 _...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    divineth. or, maketh trial. Genesis 44:15 Genesis 30:27 Leviticus 19:26 1 Kings 20:33...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Is not this it in which my lord drinketh? And for which he would search thoroughly — So it may be rendered....

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