Genesis 42:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: ”

Genesis 42:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Joseph and Ten of His Brethren 1. שׁבר sheber , “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain). 6. שׁליט shallı̂yṭ , “ruler, governor, hence,” S...
Genesis 42:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 42. Joseph's Brothers Come to Egypt to Buy Corn, and unwittingly Encounter Joseph. The greater part is taken from E, but Genesis 42:2 ; Genesis 42:4 b , Genesis 42:5 ; Genesis 42:7 ;...
Genesis 42:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If ye be true men , let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
Genesis 42:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he put them all together into ward three days. Put them all together into ward three days. Their confinement had been designed to bring them to salutary reflection. And this object was at...
Genesis 42:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Visit of Joseph's Brethren to Egypt 1. When Jacob saw] The caravans which travelled from Egypt to Syria would bring the news to Hebron.
Genesis 42:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VISITS OF JOSEPH'S BRETHREN Genesis 42:1-38 ; Genesis 43:1-34 ; Genesis 44:1-34 "Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good...
Genesis 42:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Simeon Held; the Others Sent Home Genesis 42:18-38 The behavior of this great Egyptian official-for so the brethren deemed him-must have seemed very hard and tyrannical to the trembling shepher...
Genesis 42:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

According to the foretelling of Joseph in interpreting Pharaoh's dreams, the famine came; but through Joseph's executive ability Egypt was provided with corn sufficient not only for its own needs, bu...
Genesis 42:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe, in this verse, the effects of conscience: see that scripture: Romans 2:15 . Observe the conscious sense of merited punishment also: therefore (say they) is this distress come upon us. Sinne...
Genesis 42:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If ye [be] true [men] ,.... As you say you are: let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison ; agree among yourselves which of you (for one of you must) remain in prison where you...
Genesis 42:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: Ver. 19. Let one of your brethren be bound. ] By binding Sime...
Genesis 42:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JACOB SENDS HIS SONS TO EGYPT The famine reaches to Jacob's land. God makes him and his sons to feel the distress of famine until they hear that Egypt has an abundance of food that is available fo...
Genesis 42:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. B. C. 1706. 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and...
Genesis 42:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your prison, in which you are now imprisoned, and are still like to be so, if you accept not this condition.
Genesis 42:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 42:6 . Governor.] “The word rendered governor, Shalit , is, except here, said to be only found in the books contemporary with and following the Captivity. Salatis is g...
Genesis 42:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 42:4 . Benjamin. Jacob wished to reserve him to be heir of the blessing instead of Joseph, who he thought was dead. Hence he let the ten go, for it is highly probable that the Egyptians wo...
Genesis 42:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt Providence working in men’s lives I. The story of Joseph is a good example of what is meant by Providence working for the best in the lives...
Genesis 42:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 42:1 Now when Jacob saw —literally, and Jacob saw, i.e. perceived by the preparations of others for buying corn in Egypt (Lange), but more probably learnt by the repor...
Genesis 42:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In Prison as Spies
Genesis 42:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

house. Genesis 40:3 Isaiah 42:7 Isaiah 42:22 Jeremiah 37:15 carry corn. Genesis 42:1 Genesis 42:2 Genesis 42:26 Genesis 41:56 Genesis 43:1 Genesis 43:2 Genesis 45:23
Genesis 42:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Joseph and His Brethren Genesis 42:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the Genesis 42:1-38 of Genesis we find Jacob and Joseph's brethren under the throes of the famine. As we see it from th...

Genesis 42:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 42:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 42:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 42:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 42:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 42:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 42:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 42:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 42:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary