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- 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...
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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)...
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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...
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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....
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_God forbid_ As Genesis 44:7. Joseph deprecates Judah's proposal, and
insists on the milder sentence already proposed by his steward.
Benjamin should be kept as a slave....
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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,...
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_AND HE SAID, GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD DO SO: BUT THE MAN IN WHOSE
HAND THE CUP IS FOUND, HE SHALL BE MY SERVANT; AND AS FOR YOU, GET YOU
UP IN PEACE UNTO YOUR FATHER._
No JFB commentary on these ver...
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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...
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Joseph was testing his brothers. Many years before this time, they had
plotted to kill Joseph. (See Genesis 37:18.) And they had plotted to
sell him as a slave. They plotted to sell him to Ishmaelites...
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר חָלִ֣ילָה לִּ֔י מֵ
עֲשֹׂ֖ות זֹ֑את
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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."-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 75:2
Reader! attend to every minute circumstance in this intercession of
Judah's, for in it there is a representation of a greater than Judah.
Observe, before he opened his mouth he came near....
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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...
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17._God forbid that I should do so _(174) If Joseph intended to retain
Benjamin alone, and to dismiss the others, he would have done his
utmost, to rend the Church of God by the worst possible dissens...
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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...
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AND HE SAID, GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD DO SO,.... This would be doing
an unjust thing, Joseph suggests, should he take them all for bondmen,
for the offence of one:
[BUT] THE MAN IN WHOSE HAND THE CUP...
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And he said, God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose
hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you
up in peace unto your father.
Ver. 17. _But the man in whose...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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Genesis 44:17 said H559 (H8799) me H2486 do H6213 (H8800) so H2063 man
H376 hand H3027 cup...
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‘And he said, “God forbid that I should do so. The man in whose
hand the cup was found, he shall be my bondman. But as for you, get up
in peace to your father.” '
Joseph is thoroughly testing them out...
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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...
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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...
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_And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?_
JUDAH’S INTERCESSION
I. IT WAS ABLE.
II. IT WAS NOBLE.
III. IT GAVE PROMISE OF FUTURE GREATNESS,
IV. IT SUGGESTS SOME FEATURES OF OUR LORD’S INTE...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 44:14 DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT A MAN LIKE ME CAN
INDEED PRACTICE DIVINATION? Building on what his steward had said
earlier (see v. Genesis 44:5)
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 44:21. That I may set mine eyes upon him.] An expression
meaning the exercising of a tender care towards him. Thus (Jeremiah
29:12.) “Take him, and _look well to him,_ and do...
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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 _...
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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...
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God forbid. Genesis 18:25 Genesis 42:18 2 Samuel 23:3 Psalms 75:2 P