Genesis 41:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ”

• Genesis 41:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Joseph Was Exalted 1. יאר y e 'or , “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic. 2. אחוּ 'āchû , “sedge, reed-grass, marsh-grass.” This word is...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Now therefore let Pharaoh (i) look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. (i) The office of a true prophet is not only to show the evils to come, but also the remedies for...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 41. Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams and is Made Viceroy of Egypt. This is mainly from E, Genesis 41:1-28 apart from Genesis 41:15 b , and perhaps Genesis 41:9 b entirely so. But...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man. Joseph does more than he had been asked to do; for he is not merely the interpreter of the dream; but, as fulfilling the office of a prophet, he...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. A man discreet and wise - As it is impossible that Joseph could have foreseen his own elevation, conseq...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now therefore let Pharaoh, &c.— It was the Spirit of God, and not his own ambition, which inspired Joseph to give this counsel to Pharaoh. He was ignorant himself whom GOD would destine to the...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man. The explanation given, when the key to the dreams was...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Dreams of Pharaoh and the Advancement of Joseph 1. Pharaoh] It is believed that a dynasty of Asiatic (perhaps Bedouin) conquerors, known as the Hyksôs or Shepherd kings, were now in power in E...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  PHARAOH'S DREAMS Genesis 41:1-57 "Thus saith the Lord, that frustrateth the tokens of the liars and maketh diviners mad; that confirmeth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of H...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Pharaoh's Dreams Interpreted Genesis 41:14-36 Notwithstanding the great urgency of the royal summons, and the speed with which the great events of his life crowded on one another, Joseph was ke...

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• Genesis 41:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Still the divine activity proceeded. Now it was Pharaoh who dreamed, and now the butler remembered. The result was that Joseph was brought before the king, and as he stood in the royal presence he wa...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do not overlook our great spiritual Joseph through all this. While Pharaoh exclaims, with astonishment, in the view of the Spirit of GOD in Joseph, how ought we to admire and adore Him, who r...

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• Genesis 41:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise ,.... Of good judgment and conduct, of abilities equal to the execution of a scheme hereafter proposed: it can scarcely be thought consiste...

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• Genesis 41:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Ver. 33. Now therefore let Pharaoh, &c. ] This was good counsel, and it proved best to the couns...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let Pharaoh look out a man It was not presumption in Joseph to offer this advice to Pharaoh, considering that God, by him, had given Pharaoh the fore-knowledge of what was about to come to pass, an...

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• Genesis 41:33 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  DREAMS SENT BY GOD TO PHARAOH Joseph remained in prison two full years longer, a further time of learning in humiliation the practical lesson of self-discipline. But he was under God's eye, and at...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Joseph's Exaltation. B. C. 1715.       33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 41:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this. And let him appoint overseers over the land and take up the fifth part of the lan...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 41:34 . Take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt.] Lay on a tax of a fifth of the produce. “The exaction of a fifth or two tithes, during the period of plenty, may hav...

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• Genesis 41:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 41:1 . Pharaoh dreamed. See on Isaiah 4:2 . Whatever be the pleas of atheism and materialism against dreams of a prophetic character, it is evident enough from the gentile mythology, and...

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• Genesis 41:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn Joseph as the adviser of Pharaoh I. HIS PRESENCE OF MIND. Equal to the situation. II. THE KINDNESS AND OPENNESS OF...

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• Genesis 41:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years (literally, two years of days, i.e. two complete years from the commencement of Joseph's incarceration, or mor...

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• Genesis 41:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Joseph Interprets the Dreams

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• Genesis 41:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  therefore. Daniel 4:27 look out. Exodus 18:19-22 Deuteronomy 1:13 Acts 6:3

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• Genesis 41:33 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  God Intervenes for Joseph Genesis 41:9-37 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How the words ring out with almost appalling sadness: "Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him." 1. Joseph h...

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