_THEN JOSEPH COULD NOT REFRAIN HIMSELF BEFORE ALL THEM THAT STOOD BY HIM; AND HE CRIED, CAUSE EVERY MAN TO GO OUT FROM ME. AND THERE STOOD NO MAN WITH HIM, WHILE JOSEPH MADE HIMSELF KNOWN UNTO HIS BRETHREN._ Then Joseph could not refrain. The severity of the inflexible magistrate here gives way to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WEPT ALOUD: AND THE EGYPTIANS AND THE HOUSE OF PHARAOH HEARD._ He wept aloud - no doubt from the fullness of highly-excited feelings; but to indulge in vehement and long-continued transports of sobbing is the usual way in which the Orientals express their grief.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, I AM JOSEPH; DOTH MY FATHER YET LIVE? AND HIS BRETHREN COULD NOT ANSWER HIM; FOR THEY WERE TROUBLED AT HIS PRESENCE._ I am Joseph. The emotions that now rose in the breast of himself, as well as his brethren-and chased each other in rapid succession-were many and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, COME NEAR TO ME, I PRAY YOU. AND THEY CAME NEAR. AND HE SAID, I AM_ _ JOSEPH YOUR BROTHER, WHOM YE SOLD INTO EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THESE TWO YEARS HATH THE FAMINE BEEN IN THE LAND: AND YET THERE ARE FIVE YEARS, IN THE WHICH THERE SHALL NEITHER BE EARING NOR HARVEST._ For ... yet ... five years ... neither be caring nor harvest. Ear is an old English word, meaning to plow (cf. 1 Samuel 8:12; Isaiah 30:24). This seems to co... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SENT ME BEFORE YOU TO PRESERVE YOU A POSTERITY IN THE EARTH, AND TO SAVE YOUR LIVES BY A GREAT DELIVERANCE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO NOW IT WAS NOT YOU THAT SENT ME HITHER, BUT GOD: AND HE HATH MADE ME A FATHER TO PHARAOH, AND LORD OF ALL HIS HOUSE, AND A RULER THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ It was not you that sent me hither, but God. This statement must not be interpreted more strictly than the general tenor of the his... [ Continue Reading ]
_HASTE YE, AND GO UP TO MY FATHER, AND SAY UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH THY SON JOSEPH, GOD HATH MADE ME LORD OF ALL EGYPT: COME DOWN UNTO ME, TARRY NOT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE FELL UPON HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN'S NECK, AND WEPT; AND BENJAMIN WEPT UPON HIS NECK._ And he fell upon ... Benjamin's neck. The sudden transition from a condemned criminal to a fondled brother might have occasioned fainting, or even death, had not his tumultuous feelings been relieved by a tor... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FAME THEREOF WAS HEARD IN PHARAOH'S HOUSE, SAYING, JOSEPH'S BRETHREN ARE COME: AND IT PLEASED PHARAOH WELL, AND HIS SERVANTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, SAY UNTO THY BRETHREN, THIS DO YE; LADE YOUR BEASTS, AND GO, GET YOU UNTO THE LAND OF CANAAN;_ Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren. Since Joseph might have been prevented by delicacy, the king himself invited the patriarch and all his family to migrate int... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SO: AND JOSEPH GAVE THEM WAGONS, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF PHARAOH, AND GAVE THEM PROVISION FOR THE WAY._ Joseph gave them wagons - which must have been novelties in Palestine; because wheeled carriages were, and are almost unknown there.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO ALL OF THEM HE GAVE EACH MAN CHANGES OF RAIMENT; BUT TO BENJAMIN HE GAVE THREE HUNDRED PIECES OF SILVER, AND FIVE CHANGES OF RAIMENT._ Changes of raiment. It was and is customary with great men to bestow upon their friends dresses of distinction; and in places where they are of the same descrip... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO HIS FATHER HE SENT AFTER THIS MANNER; TEN ASSES LADEN WITH THE GOOD THINGS OF EGYPT, AND TEN SHE ASSES LADEN WITH CORN AND BREAD AND MEAT FOR HIS FATHER BY THE WAY._ To his father he sent - a supply of everything that could contribute to his support and comfort-the large and liberal scale o... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HE SENT HIS BRETHREN AWAY, AND THEY DEPARTED: AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, SEE THAT YE FALL NOT OUT BY THE WAY._ So he sent his brethren away. In dismissing them on their homeward journey he gave them this parting admonition, "See that ye fall not out by the way" - a caution that would be greatly nee... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN UNTO JACOB THEIR FATHER,_ They went up out of Egypt. The Hebrews considered what lay to the north as higher, and what lay southward as lower. Accordingly, those who traveled from Egypt to Palestine (which was north) went up (cf. Genes... [ Continue Reading ]