Genesis 40:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. ”

• Genesis 40:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Joseph in Prison An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep the breast of Joseph in calm tranquillity. There is a God above, and that God is with him. His soul swerves not...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 40. Joseph Interprets their Dreams to Pharaoh's Two Imprisoned Officers. This chapter is from E, with harmonistic additions and touches from J ( Genesis 40:3 b , Genesis 40:5 b , Gene...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. And I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup - Fro...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. And I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Joseph interprets the Dreams of Pharaoh's Officers 1. Butler] rather, 'cupbearer,' a high court official: cp. Nehemiah 1:11 ; Nehemiah 2:1 . Baker ] rather, 'cook.' It is conjectured that these...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And pressed them. — Plutarch, Is. et Osir. § 6, says that before the time of Psammetichus the Egyptians did not drink wine, nor make libations of it to the gods. This statement has been abundantl...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Joseph Interprets Two Dreams Genesis 40:9-23 Joseph as an interpreter was among a thousand. Because his pure heart was open to God, he could unriddle the mysteries of human life. Very often tho...

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• Genesis 40:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The works of God are ever characterized by simplicity. No study is more fascinating in the Divine Oracles or in human experience than the wonderful mosaic of the divine government. If it may be state...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It was the method probably before the art of making wine was well understood, to press the juice of the grape in this manner.

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• Genesis 40:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Pharaoh's cup [was] in his hand ,.... So it seemed to him in his dream, as it often had been when in his office: and I took the grapes ; from off the vine that was before him: and pressed th...

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• Genesis 40:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. Ver. 11. And pressed them into Pharaoh's cup.] That he might...

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• Genesis 40:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOSEPH, INTERPRETER OF DREAMS Two men are seen now to be committed to Joseph's care in the prison, the cup bearer and the baker of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. It is not told us for what offenses they...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bo...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 40:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the head cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded and its blossom...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— The butler. ] “The cupbearer and overseer of the wine—making and storing and serving, an important officer of the king. ( 2 Kings 18:17 .) He was now a state prisoner for an offen...

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• Genesis 40:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 40:4 . Captain of the guard; that is, Potiphar who had a controul over the gaoler. It would seem, by enlarging Joseph's liberty in prison, that he now believed his asseverations of innocen...

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• Genesis 40:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them Light upon Joseph’s destiny This chapter discovers signs that Joseph was destined to fill an important place in the history...

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• Genesis 40:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 40:1 And it came to pass (literally, and it was ) after these things (literally, words , i.e. after the transactions just recorded), that the butler —מָשְׁקֶה, t...

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• Genesis 40:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Interpretation of the Dreams

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• Genesis 40:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  And I took, etc. pressed. Genesis 49:11 Leviticus 10:9 Proverbs 3:10 hand. Genesis 40:21 1 Kings 10:5 2 Chronicles 9:4 Nehemiah 1:11 Nehemiah 2:1

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• Genesis 40:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Joseph in Prison Genesis 40:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We left Joseph, in chapter 39, in prison under the order of Potiphar, captain of the guard. Chapter forty of Genesis discovers to us several...

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