_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF TWO FULL YEARS, THAT PHARAOH DREAMED: AND, BEHOLD, HE STOOD BY THE RIVER._ At the end of two full years. It is not certain whether these years are reckoned from the beginning of Joseph's imprisonment, or from the events described in the preceding chapter-most like... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP OUT OF THE RIVER SEVEN WELL FAVOURED KINE AND FATFLESHED; AND THEY FED IN A MEADOW._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING THAT HIS SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED; AND HE SENT AND CALLED FOR ALL THE MAGICIANS OF EGYPT, AND ALL THE WISE MEN THEREOF: AND PHARAOH TOLD THEM HIS DREAM; BUT THERE WAS NONE THAT COULD INTERPRET THEM UNTO PHARAOH._ He ... called for all the magicians, х_ CHARTUMIYM_ (H2... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SPAKE THE CHIEF BUTLER UNTO PHARAOH, SAYING, I DO REMEMBER MY FAULTS THIS DAY:_ Chief butler ... I do remember my faults. This public acknowledgment of the merits of the young Hebrew would, tardy though it was, have reflected credit on the butler, had it not been obviously made to ingratiate... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN PHARAOH SENT AND CALLED JOSEPH, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM HASTILY OUT OF THE DUNGEON: AND HE SHAVED HIMSELF, AND CHANGED HIS RAIMENT, AND CAME IN UNTO PHARAOH._ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph ... out of the dungeon, х_ HABOWR_ (H953)] - (see the note at Genesis 40:15). Now that God's set time... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, I HAVE DREAMED A DREAM, AND THERE IS NONE THAT CAN INTERPRET IT: AND I HAVE HEARD SAY OF THEE, THAT THOU CANST UNDERSTAND A DREAM TO INTERPRET IT._ Pharaoh said ... I have dreamed a dream. The king's brief statement of the service required brought out the genuine piet... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, IN MY DREAM, BEHOLD, I STOOD UPON THE BANK OF THE RIVER:_ _ AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, IN MY DREAM, BEHOLD, I STOOD UPON THE BANK OF THE RIVER:_ I stood upon the bank of the river, х_ HA-Yª'OR_ (H2975), in Coptic Yaro, or Jero (blue, Wilkinson; so also Stanley, 'Si... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP OUT OF THE RIVER SEVEN KINE, FATFLESHED AND WELL FAVOURED; AND THEY FED IN A MEADOW:_ There came up out of the river. Cows, now of the buffalo kind, are seen daily plunging into the Nile; when their huge form is gradually emerging, they seem as if rising "out of the rive... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, SEVEN OTHER KINE CAME UP AFTER THEM, POOR AND VERY ILL FAVOURED AND LEANFLESHED, SUCH AS I NEVER SAW IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT FOR BADNESS:_ Behold, seven other kine ... poor and ill-favoured. The cow being the emblem of fruitfulness, the different years of plenty and of famine were ap... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LEAN AND THE ILL FAVOURED KINE DID EAT UP THE FIRST SEVEN FAT KINE:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY HAD EATEN THEM UP, IT COULD NOT BE KNOWN THAT THEY HAD EATEN THEM; BUT THEY WERE STILL ILL FAVOURED, AS AT THE BEGINNING. SO I AWOKE._ It could not be known that they had eaten them - literally, 'it could not be seen that they had come into their bellies.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SAW IN MY DREAM, AND, BEHOLD, SEVEN EARS CAME UP IN ONE STALK, FULL AND GOOD:_ And I saw in my dream ... seven ears - that is, of Egyptian wheat (triticum compositum), which, when "full and good," is remarkable in size-a single seed sprouting into seven, ten, or fourteen stalks, and each sta... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, SEVEN EARS, WITHERED, THIN, AND BLASTED WITH THE EAST WIND, SPRUNG UP AFTER THEM:_ Blasted by the east wind - destructive everywhere to grain, but particularly so in Egypt, where, sweeping over the sandy deserts of Arabia, it comes in the character of a hot, blighting wind, that quick... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE THIN EARS DEVOURED THE SEVEN GOOD EARS: AND I TOLD THIS UNTO THE MAGICIANS; BUT THERE WAS NONE_ _ THAT COULD DECLARE IT TO ME._ Devoured the seven rank and full ears. Devoured is a different word from that used, Genesis 41:4, and conveys the idea of destroying, by absorbing to themselves a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO PHARAOH, THE DREAM OF PHARAOH IS ONE: GOD HATH SHEWED PHARAOH WHAT HE IS ABOUT TO DO._ Joseph said ... The dream ... is one. They both pointed to the same event-a remarkable dispensation of seven years of unexampled abundance, to be followed by a similar period of unparalleled... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SEVEN GOOD KINE ARE SEVEN YEARS; AND THE SEVEN GOOD EARS ARE SEVEN YEARS: THE DREAM IS ONE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE LET PHARAOH LOOK OUT A MAN DISCREET AND WISE, AND SET HIM OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man. The explanation given, when the key to the dreams was supplied, appears to have been satisfactory to the king and his courtiers; and we may suppose that much a... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET PHARAOH DO THIS, AND LET HIM APPOINT OFFICERS OVER THE LAND, AND TAKE UP THE FIFTH PART OF THE LAND OF EGYPT IN THE SEVEN PLENTEOUS YEARS._ Appoint officers over the land - overseers, equivalent to the beys of modern Egypt. TAKE UP THE FIFTH PART OF THE LAND - i:e., of the land produce to be... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LET THEM GATHER ALL THE FOOD OF THOSE GOOD YEARS THAT COME, AND LAY UP CORN UNDER THE HAND OF PHARAOH, AND LET THEM KEEP FOOD IN THE CITIES._ Under the hand of Pharaoh - i:e., under royal and official direction.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT FOOD SHALL BE FOR STORE TO THE LAND AGAINST THE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE, WHICH SHALL BE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; THAT THE LAND PERISH NOT THROUGH THE FAMINE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, CAN WE FIND SUCH A ONE AS THIS IS, A MAN IN WHOM THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS?_ Pharaoh said unto his servants. The kings of ancient Egypt, though autocrats, were assisted in the management of state affairs by the advice of the most distinguished members of the priestly... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, FORASMUCH AS GOD HATH SHEWED THEE ALL THIS, THERE IS NONE SO DISCREET AND WISE AS THOU ART:_ Thou shalt be over my house - i:e. the prefect of the palace, the marshal of the court (1 Kings 4:6; 2 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 15:5; Isaiah 22:15; Daniel 2:1; Daniel 2:9). But Jos... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, SEE, I HAVE SET THEE OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Pharaoh said ... See, I have set thee ... These words were preliminary to investiture with the insignia of office, which were these,-the signet-ring, used for signing public documents, and its impression, was more vali... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH TOOK OFF HIS RING FROM HIS HAND, AND PUT IT UPON JOSEPH'S HAND, AND ARRAYED HIM IN VESTURES OF FINE LINEN, AND PUT A GOLD CHAIN ABOUT HIS NECK;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE HIM TO RIDE IN THE SECOND CHARIOT WHICH HE HAD; AND THEY CRIED BEFORE HIM, BOW THE KNEE: AND HE MADE HIM RULER OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ They (heralds) cried ... Bow the knee, х_ 'ABREEK_ (H86). If viewed as a Hebrew word, it might be the infinitive absolute Hiphil from _ BAARAK_ (H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, I AM PHARAOH, AND WITHOUT THEE SHALL NO MAN LIFT UP HIS HAND OR FOOT IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh - a proverbial form of expressing sovereign power. These ceremonies of investiture were closed in usual form by the king in council s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH CALLED JOSEPH'S NAME ZAPHNATH-PA'ANEAH; AND HE GAVE HIM TO WIFE ASENATH THE DAUGHTER OF POTIPHERAH PRIEST OF ON. AND JOSEPH WENT OUT OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Zaphnath-paaneah. The imposition of other names upon persons promoted to high offices, or placed in new circumstances, appea... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE STOOD BEFORE PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT. AND JOSEPH WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF PHARAOH, AND WENT THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Thirty years - seventeen when brought into Egypt, probably three in prison, and thirteen in the service of Potiphar. WENT OUT... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN THE SEVEN PLENTEOUS YEARS THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH BY HANDFULS._ Brought forth by handfuls, х_ LIQMAATSIYM_ (H7062)] - in fistfuls, in sheaves. A singular expression, alluding not only to the luxuriance of the crop, but the practice of the reapers grasping the ears, which alone were cut.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GATHERED UP ALL THE FOOD OF THE SEVEN YEARS, WHICH WERE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND LAID UP THE FOOD IN THE CITIES: THE FOOD OF THE FIELD, WHICH WAS ROUND ABOUT EVERY CITY, LAID HE UP IN THE SAME._ Gathered up all the food. This general expression must be viewed as limited to the proportion o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH GATHERED CORN AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, VERY MUCH, UNTIL HE LEFT NUMBERING; FOR IT WAS WITHOUT NUMBER._ Joseph gathered corn ... until he left numbering; for it was without number. It appears from the paintings that the Egyptian officers kept an account of the quantity of grain stored in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND UNTO JOSEPH WERE BORN TWO SONS BEFORE THE YEARS OF FAMINE CAME, WHICH ASENATH THE DAUGHTER OF POTIPHERAH PRIEST OF ON BARE UNTO HIM._ Unto Joseph were born two sons. These domestic events, which increased his temporal happiness, develop the piety of his character in the names conferred upon hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH CALLED THE NAME OF THE FIRSTBORN MANASSEH: FOR GOD, SAID HE, HATH MADE ME FORGET ALL MY TOIL, AND ALL MY FATHER'S HOUSE._ Manasseh - one who forgets [from the Piel of _ NAASHAAH_ (H5382), for _ NASHANIY_ (H5382) to correspond with the proper name, _ MªNASHEH_ (H4519); Septuagint, Manass... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NAME OF THE SECOND CALLED HE EPHRAIM: FOR GOD HATH CAUSED ME TO BE FRUITFUL IN THE LAND OF MY AFFLICTION._ Ephraim, х_ 'EPRAAYIM_ (H669)] - i:e., 'double fruitfulness,' referring either to the increase of Joseph's family or to the years of extraordinary plenty, from the verb х_ PAARAAH_ (H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTEOUSNESS, THAT WAS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, WERE ENDED._ The seven years of plenteousness ... ended. Over and above the proportion purchased for the government during the years of plenty, the people could still have husbanded much for future use. But improvident as men com... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL COUNTRIES CAME INTO EGYPT TO JOSEPH FOR TO BUY CORN; BECAUSE THAT THE FAMINE WAS SO SORE IN ALL LANDS._ The famine was so sore in all lands - i:e., the lands contiguous to Egypt-Canaan, Syria, and Arabia. As to Canaan and Syria, see the note at Genesis 42:4 and in proof that the seven year... [ Continue Reading ]