Genesis 40:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. ”

• Genesis 40:2 - 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 40:2 - 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 40:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

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• Genesis 40:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. Pharaoh ... put them in ward ... Whatever was their crime (and it has...

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• Genesis 40:2 - 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 40:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Joseph Fares Well in Prison Genesis 39:19-23 ; Genesis 40:1-8 These two men remind us of the two thieves crucified beside our Lord; to the one He was a savor of life, to the other of death. Je...

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• Genesis 40:2 - 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 40:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do not overlook in this verse, that this captain of the guard must have been Potiphar, Genesis 39:1 . Whether by this time Joseph's master had begun to believe Joseph was innocent doth not a...

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• Genesis 40:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers ,.... The same above mentioned: against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers ; for as there were several butlers and ba...

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• Genesis 40:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. Ver. 2. And Pharaoh was wroth, &c. ] That had been enough to have br...

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• Genesis 40:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  We should not have had this story of Pharaoh's butler and baker recorded in Scripture, if it had not been serviceable to Joseph's preferment. The world stands for the sake of the church, and is gover...

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• Genesis 40:2 - 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 40:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The History of Joseph. B. C. 1717.       1 And it came to pass after these things, that the...

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• Genesis 40:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 40:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Joseph Comes In Contact With Important Court Officials And Interprets Their Dreams ( Genesis 40:1-23 ). Genesis 40:1-2 ‘And it happened after these things that the cup-bearer of the king of Eg...

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• Genesis 40:2 - 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 40:2 - 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 40:2 - 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 40:2 - 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 40:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Dreams of the two Prisoners

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• Genesis 40:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  wroth. Psalms 76:10 Proverbs 16:14 Proverbs 19:12 Proverbs 19:19 Proverbs 27:4 Acts 12:20 the chief of the butlers. 1 Chronicles 27:27

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• Genesis 40:2 - 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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