genesis-42:6-25,-genesis-42:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:18-20

And Joseph (whose bowels of mercy were already yearning towards them) said unto them the third day, This do, and live ;— i.e. this do that ye may live— for I fear God —literally, the Elohim I fear; the term Elohim being employed, since to have said Jehovah would have been to divulge, if not his Hebrew origin, at least his acquaintance with the Hebrew faith (Hengstenberg). At the same time its use would arrest them more than the preceding adjuration, By the life of Pharaoh! and,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:21

And they said one to another (Joseph's treatment of them beginning by this time to produce its appropriate and designed result by recalling them to a sense of their former guilt), We are verily guilty —"this is the only acknowledgment of sin in the Book of Genesis" (Inglis)— concerning our brother . They had been guilty of many sins, but the special iniquity of which their reception by the Egyptian governor had reminded them was that which some twenty years before they had perpetrated... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:22

And Reuben —who had not consented to, but had been altogether unable to prevent, the wickedness of his brethren ( Genesis 37:22 , Genesis 37:29 )— answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child (or lad); and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required —literally, and also his blood, behold it is required . This was in accordance with the Noachic law against bloodshed ( Genesis 9:5 ), with which it is apparent that Jacob's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:23

And they knew not (while they talked in what they imagined to be a foreign dialect to the Egyptian viceroy) that Joseph understood them; —literally, heard (so as to understand what was said)— for he spake unto them by an interpreter— literally, for the interpreter . ( חַמְּלִיץ , the hiph. part; with the art; of לוּץ , to speak barbarously, in the hiph. to act as an interpreter), i.e. the official Court interpreter, ἑρμηνευτής ( LXX .), was between them . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:24

And he turned himself about from them (in order to hide his emotion), and wept (as he reflected on the wonderful leadings of Divine providence, and beheld the pitiful distress of his brethren); and returned to them again (having previously withdrawn from them a space), and communed with them (probably about the one of them that should remain behind), and took from them —by a rough act of authority, since they either could not or would not settle among themselves who should be the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:25

Then (literally, and) Joseph commanded to fill —literally, commanded, and they ( i.e. Joseph's men) filled— their sacks (rather, vessels or receptacles, כְּלִי ) with corn, and to restore every man's money (literally, their pieces of silver, each ) into his sack ,— שַׂק , saccus, σάκος, σάκκος , sack ( vide Genesis 37:34 ). Joseph "feels it impossible to bargain, with his father and his brethren for bread" (Baumgarten)— and to give them prevision for the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 42:1-38

- Joseph and Ten of His Brethren1. שׁבר sheber, “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain).6. שׁליט shallı̂yṭ, “ruler, governor, hence,” Sultan. Not elsewhere found in the Pentateuch.25. כלי kelı̂y, “vessel,” here any portable article in which grain may be conveyed. שׂק śaq, “sack,” the very word which remains in our language to this day. אמתחת 'amtachath “bag.”Twenty years, the period of Joseph’s long and anxious waiting, have come to an end. The dreams... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:6

Genesis 42:6. Joseph’s brethren came and bowed themselves before him Some have inferred from this that the names of all the strangers that came to buy corn in Egypt were brought to Joseph and registered; and such persons or families as were any way remarkable, were brought before him. Thus his brethren would of course be introduced to him: but, in general, he undoubtedly sold the corn by deputies. With their faces to the earth The common method of salutation in the eastern nations. Thus... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:7

Genesis 42:7. We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years he had been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, it is strange that he, who so oft went through all the land of Egypt, never made a step to Canaan, to visit his aged father. When he was in the borders of Egypt that lay next to Canaan, perhaps it would not have been above three or four days’ journey for him in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:9

Genesis 42:9. He remembered the dreams But they had forgotten them. The laying up of God’s oracles in our hearts will be of excellent use to us in all our conduct. Joseph had an eye to his dreams, which he knew to be divine, in his carriage toward his brethren, and aimed at the accomplishment of them, and the bringing his brethren to repentance; and both those points were gained. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:18-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 42:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 42:1-38

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 42:9

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