Genesis 42:8

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

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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....
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 ; G...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They knew not him— Every thing concurred to conceal Joseph from them; the alteration of his person; his dress; his state; and, above all, their hav...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. Joseph saw his brethren ... they knew not him. This is not wonderful. They were full-gro...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joseph, now a middle-aged man, was dressed as an Egyptian, and spoke in Egyptian through an interpreter ( Genesis 42:23 ). His brethren, on the other...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joseph knew. — As this is twice repeated, some suppose that Joseph (in Genesis 42:7 ) had only a suspicion, from their dress and appearance, that...
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 t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joseph Sees His Ten Brothers Genesis 42:1-17 The true interpretation of Joseph's treatment of his brethren is to be found in the supposition th...
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 w...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

No doubt this remembrance was a gracious remembrance. Joshua 23:14 .
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. It being about twenty two years since they saw him, and then he was young, and his beard not g...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. Ver. 8. But they knew not him. ] As being now altered in stature, voice, visage, his presen...
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 E...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. B. C. 1706....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Because his visage was much altered by his beard, and by other things, it being about twenty years since they saw him; and his Egyptian language, and...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Joseph knew his brothers but they did not know him.' There was no way in which they would have recognised him. He was dressed in the dignity o...
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 contemporar...
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 g...
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 mean...
The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him The betrayers confronted with the betrayed I. AN INSTANCE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE. II. A PREPAR...
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 Eg...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

but they knew. Luke 24:16 John 20:14 John 21:4
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 un...

⁸ And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 42:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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