Genesis 42:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. ”

• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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 ;...

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• Genesis 42:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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.

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• Genesis 42:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Bring your youngest brother. — Besides his desire to be re-united to his brother, Joseph reasonably felt that the possession of Benjamin would be the best means of inducing his father also to come...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But bring your youngest brother unto me ,.... Upon their return for more corn: so shall your words be verified ; that they were true men, and had no ill design upon the land, but were come only to...

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• Genesis 42:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. Ver. 20. But bring your youngest brother unto me. ] So saith God to all his worship...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. B. C. 1706.       7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and...

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• Genesis 42:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Resolved and promised to do so. Those things are oft said to be done in Scripture which were sincerely resolved upon, as hath been noted before.

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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• Genesis 42:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  In Prison as Spies

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• Genesis 42:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  bring. Genesis 42:15 Genesis 42:34 Genesis 43:5 Genesis 43:19 Genesis 44:23 And they. Genesis 42:26 Genesis 6:22 John 2:5

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• Genesis 42:20 - 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...

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