Genesis 39:1-20 KJV

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

Joseph, Servant of Potiphar Genesis 39:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a chapter that is thrown in between the story of Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites, and Joseph bought by Potiphar and made a servant in Egypt. That chapter is the thirty-eighth. It seems to break the continuity of the message concerning Joseph, and yet it is vitally placed just where it is. From a prophetical viewpoint the story of Judah and his marriage to Shuah seems to us to set forth the story of Israel during the period... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 39:9

‘YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION, FOR YIELDING IS SIN’‘How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?’ Genesis 39:9 We are accustomed to admire the mere act of resistance to temptation, by whomsoever and howsoever offered. But there is a vast difference between the ways in which temptation is resisted. Some, knowing the thing desired of them to be essentially wrong, have recourse to cowardly shifts and evasions. They are unable to comply; thus much they will answer; but for this inability... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Joseph Is Sold Into Slavery, Resists Temptation and Strangely Prospers in Prison (Genesis 39:1-23 ). That what now happens to Joseph is in the hands of Yahweh is abundantly made clear (Genesis 38:2-3; Genesis 38:21). He is with him there in that strange land able to bring about His will. He is Lord of all the earth. Genesis 39:1 . “And Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh” s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:1

The Lord was with Joseph, with his gracious presence and blessing, as this phrase is taken here, Genesis 39:21; Genesis 21:22; Genesis 26:24. He was in the house of his master: he doth not endeavour to make an escape to his father, but demeaned himself patiently and faithfully in the station into which God's providence had brought him. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:3

The heathens owned a supreme God, and his overruling providence in affairs, though they did not glorify him as God, but worshipped the creature with and more than the Creator, Romans 1:25. In his hand, i.e. under his ministry, as this phrase is used, Exodus 4:13; Leviticus 8:36; Proverbs 26:6, and oft elsewhere. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:4

He served him, not now as a slave, but in a higher degree. All that he had he put into his hand, i.e. committed to his care and management, as Genesis 16:6. Object. How could this be, when Joseph understood not the Egyptian tongue? Answ. Joseph doubtless when he came thither did as much as possibly he could endeavour to get the knowledge of that language, and being a person of excellent parts, would soon obtain it, especially because of the great affinity between that language and his own. Nor... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:6

He took care for nothing, but that he might eat, and drink, and fare deliciously. Nor did he indeed take any care for that, it being provided for him by other hands. Others thus, He took care for nothing, but committed all to Joseph, except his bread, which he would not have provided by a Hebrew hand, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, Genesis 43:32. But that was no impediment, for neither did Joseph eat with his master, nor was he the cook to dress it for him. But he... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:7

She cast her eyes upon Joseph, in a lascivious and unchaste manner. See Job 31:1; Matthew 5:28; 2 Peter 2:14. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:10

He avoided her company and familiar conversation, as evil in itself, the present circumstances considered, and as an occasion of further evil. See Proverbs 1:15; Proverbs 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 Timothy 5:14. read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 39:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 39:10

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