_NOW WHEN JACOB SAW THAT THERE WAS CORN IN EGYPT, JACOB SAID UNTO HIS SONS, WHY DO YE LOOK ONE UPON ANOTHER?_ Now when Jacob saw - learned from common rumour. It is evident from Jacob's language that his own and his sons' families had suffered greatly from the scarcity; and through the increasing s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, BEHOLD, I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE IS CORN IN EGYPT: GET YOU DOWN THITHER, AND BUY FOR US FROM THENCE; THAT WE MAY LIVE, AND NOT DIE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL CAME TO BUY CORN AMONG THOSE THAT CAME: FOR THE FAMINE WAS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN._ The famine was in the land of Canaan. The tropical rains which, annually falling, swell the Nile, are those of Palestine also; and their failure would produce the same disastrous effects in Ca... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH WAS THE GOVERNOR OVER THE LAND, AND HE IT WAS THAT SOLD TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND: AND JOSEPH'S BRETHREN CAME, AND BOWED DOWN THEMSELVES BEFORE HIM WITH THEIR FACES TO THE EARTH._ Joseph was the governor - in the zenith of his power and influence. HE IT WAS THAT SOLD - i:e., direc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH SAW HIS BRETHREN, AND HE KNEW THEM, BUT MADE HIMSELF STRANGE UNTO THEM, AND SPAKE ROUGHLY UNTO THEM; AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHENCE COME YE? AND THEY SAID, FROM THE LAND OF CANAAN TO BUY FOOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH KNEW HIS BRETHREN, BUT THEY KNEW NOT HIM._ Joseph saw his brethren ... they knew not him. This is not wonderful. They were full-grown men-he was but a lad at parting. They were in their usual garb-he was in his official robes. They never dreamt of him as governor of Egypt, while he had... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH REMEMBERED THE DREAMS WHICH HE DREAMED OF THEM, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE SPIES; TO SEE THE NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND YE ARE COME._ Ye are spies, х_ MªRAGªLIYM_ (H7270)] - ye are footing it; ye are traversing the country. The Egyptians, like Orientals generally, are not accustomed to walk... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER INTO WARD THREE DAYS._ Put them all together into ward three days. Their confinement had been designed to bring them to salutary reflection. And this object was attained; because they looked upon the retributive justice of God as now pursuing them in that foreign land.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOSEPH COMMANDED TO FILL THEIR SACKS WITH CORN, AND TO RESTORE EVERY MAN'S MONEY INTO HIS SACK, AND TO GIVE THEM PROVISION FOR THE WAY: AND THUS DID HE UNTO THEM._ Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, х_ KªLEEYHEM_ (H3627)] - utensils, vessels. AND TO RESTORE EVERY MAN'S MONEY INT... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CAME UNTO JACOB THEIR FATHER UNTO THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND TOLD HIM ALL THAT BEFELL UNTO THEM; SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MAN, WHO IS THE LORD OF THE LAND, SPAKE ROUGHLY TO US, AND TOOK US FOR SPIES OF THE COUNTRY._ The man who is the lord of the land, х_ 'ªDONEEY_ (H113) _ HAA'AARETS_ (H776)]. The word in the plural is used intensitively when only one person is meant (cf. Genesis 42:33; 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5;... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WE SAID UNTO HIM, WE ARE TRUE MEN; WE ARE NO SPIES:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AS THEY EMPTIED THEIR SACKS, THAT, BEHOLD, EVERY MAN'S BUNDLE OF MONEY WAS IN HIS SACK: AND WHEN BOTH THEY AND THEIR FATHER SAW THE BUNDLES OF MONEY, THEY WERE AFRAID._ As they emptied their sacks. It appears that they had been silent about the money discovery at the resting-pl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB THEIR FATHER SAID UNTO THEM, ME HAVE YE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN: JOSEPH IS NOT, AND SIMEON IS NOT, AND YE WILL TAKE BENJAMIN AWAY: ALL THESE THINGS ARE AGAINST ME._ Me have ye bereaved. This exclamation indicates a painfully excited state of feeling, and it shows how difficult it is for... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REUBEN SPAKE UNTO HIS FATHER, SAYING, SLAY MY TWO SONS, IF I BRING HIM NOT TO THEE: DELIVER HIM INTO MY HAND, AND I WILL BRING HIM TO THEE AGAIN._ Reuben ... Slay my two sons - (see the note at Genesis 37:22; Genesis 37:30.) This was a thoughtless and unwarrantable condition-one that he never... [ Continue Reading ]