Genesis 39:14

_THAT SHE CALLED UNTO THE MEN OF HER HOUSE, AND SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, SEE, HE HATH BROUGHT IN AN HEBREW UNTO US TO MOCK US; HE CAME IN UNTO ME TO LIE WITH ME, AND I CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE:_ That she called unto the men. Disappointed and affronted, she vowed revenge, and accused Joseph, first to the servants of the house, and on his return to her lord. AN HEBREW ... TO MOCK US - an affected and blind aspersion of her husband for keeping in his house an Hebrew, the very abomination of Egyptians....

13-18 Joseph's mistress, having tried in vain to make him a guilty man, endeavoured to be avenged on him. Those that have broken the bonds of modesty, will never be held by the bonds of truth. It is no new thing for the best of men to be falsely accused of the worst of crimes, by those who themselves are the worst of criminals. It is well there is a day of discovery coming, in which all shall appear in their true characters....

Verse Genesis 39:14. _HE HATH BROUGHT IN A HEBREW UNTO US_] Potiphar's wife affects to throw great blame on her _husband_, whom we may reasonably suppose she did not greatly love. He _hath brought_ _in _- he hath raised this person to all his dignity and eminence, to give him the greater opportunity to mock us. לפחק _letsachek_, here translated _to mock_, is the same word used in Genesis 26:8, relative to Isaac and Rebekah; and is certainly used by Potiphar's wife in Genesis 39:17, to signify some kind of familiar intercourse not allowable but between man and wife....

- Joseph in Potiphar’s House According to our reckoning, Perez and Zerah were born when Judah was in his twenty-eighth year, and therefore, Joseph in his twenty-fourth. Here, then, we go back seven years to resume the story of Joseph. Genesis 39:1 Joseph fares well with his first master. “Potiphar.” This is a racapitulation of the narrative in Genesis 37: “The Lord;” the God of covenant is with Joseph. “In the house.” Joseph was a domestic servant. “And his master saw.” The prosperity that attended all Joseph’s doings was so striking as to show that the Lord was with him. “Set him over” - made him overseer of all that was in his house. “The Lord blessed the Mizrite’s house.” He blesses those who bless his own...

EXPOSITION GENESIS 39:7 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS,—Joseph had by this time been nearly ten years in Potiphar's house (vide Genesis 41:46)—THAT HIS MASTER'S WIFE CAST HER EYES (lasciviously) UPON JOSEPH; AND SHE SAID, LIE WITH ME. According to monumental evidence and historical testimony (Herod; 2.111), Egyptian females, even though married, were distinguished for licentiousness and immorality, and were not condemned to live in seclusion (Bohlen), but were allowed freely to mix in promiscuous society, which facts perfectly account for Joseph's temptation by his mistress. GENESIS 39:8,...

THAT SHE CALLED UNTO THE MEN OF HER HOUSE,.... Of that part of the house which belonged to her; her eunuchs that waited upon her, or that were in another part of the home, at some distance: AND SPAKE UNTO THEM; when they came to her: SAYING, SEE, HE HATH BROUGHT IN AN HEBREW UNTO US TO MOCK US: she means her husband, whom through contempt, and in her passion, she names not, having lost all affection for him, as her addresses to Joseph showed; and so the Targum of Jonathan supplies it, "your master hath brought, c.'' and Joseph she calls an Hebrew by way of reproach, and with a view to set her servants against him who before this might not have any great regard to him through envy at him, for the favours he enjoyed, and the authority he had; and because he prevented their doing wrong things to serve themselves, and hurt their master: and holding up his garment in her hand, which they...

CHAPTER 39 JOSEPH IN EGYPT _ 1. In Potiphar's house (Genesis 39:1)_ 2. Tempted by Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39:7) 3. Joseph in prison (Genesis 39:19) Potiphar, the master of Joseph, was an officer of Pharaoh. His name means “devoted to Ra,” a god of Egypt. Why is it stated a number of times that Potiphar was an Egyptian? Discoveries have shown that Egypt had come at that time under a new dynasty; therefore it is repeatedly stated that Potiphar, the Egyptian, was retained in his official position. Joseph in Egypt is the type of Christ among the Gentiles. Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. The temptation of Potiphar's wife brings out the marvelous character of Jos

GENESIS 39. JOSEPH REPELS HIS MASTER'S WIFE, AND IS IMPRISONED ON HER FALSE ACCUSATION. This section is from J with touches from E. It is generally agreed that Potiphar. guard is an insertion in Genesis 39:1. J represents Joseph as sold to an unnamed Egyptian; the governor of the prison is also unnamed. According to E, Joseph is sold to Potiphar the captain of the guard, and attends, not as himself a prisoner, but as Potiphar's slave (_cf. Genesis 41:12_), to the officers who are in custody in the house. Clearly, Joseph's mistress cannot have been the wife of Potiphar the captain of the guard, who entrusts him with the service of Pharaoh's officers (Genesis 40:4). The identification is made in Genesis 39 to harmonise the

The False Accusation 8. _knoweth not_, &c. Here, as in Genesis 39:6, the marg., _knoweth not with me what is_, gives the meaning of the passage....

SEE, HE HATH BROUGHT, &C.— These words breathe the highest indignation: she does not vouchsafe to name her husband; she calls him HE, _see_ HE _hath brought,_ &c. nor will she name Joseph but by an appellation most contemptuous to the AEgyptians; _a Hebrew,_ a _wandering stranger;_ see ch. Genesis 43:32. And in Genesis 43:17 she calls him _the Hebrew servant._ Artful and treacherous, she joins her husband in the common disgrace, _to mock_ US, to disgrace _himself_ as well as _her,_ as every insult of that kind to a wife, is an insult to the husband. To _mock_ or _insult_ is often used in the Hebrew, and other languages, in that peculiar sense; as υβριζειν, εκπαιζειν _,_ are in Greek; _illudere, ludificari, et ludibrio babere,_ in Latin....