Genesis 42:20

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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²⁰ But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 42:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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