Genesis 40:4

the captain. Genesis 37:36 Genesis 39:1 Genesis 39:21-23 Psalms 37:5 a season.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Joseph in Prison An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep the breast of Joseph in calm tranquillity. There is a God abov...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 40. Joseph Interprets their Dreams to Pharaoh's Two Imprisoned Officers. This chapter is from E, with harmonistic additions and touches fro...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. They continued a season - ימים yamim,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

A season— They were days, ימים, iamim, the Hebrew has it; that is, say some, a whole year. It is thought by the generality of commentators, tha...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. The captain of the guard char...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joseph interprets the Dreams of Pharaoh's Officers 1. Butler] rather, 'cupbearer,' a high court official: cp. Nehemiah 1:11 ; Nehemiah 2:1 . Ba...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In the house of the captain of the guard. — That is, of Potiphar. As he is said to have charged Joseph with the care of these two high officials, h...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joseph Fares Well in Prison Genesis 39:19-23 ; Genesis 40:1-8 These two men remind us of the two thieves crucified beside our Lord; to the one...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The works of God are ever characterized by simplicity. No study is more fascinating in the Divine Oracles or in human experience than the wonderful m...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! do not overlook in this verse, that this captain of the guard must have been Potiphar, Genesis 39:1 . Whether by this time Joseph's master h...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them ,.... Committed them to his care and custody, he being very probably recommended to him by the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. Ver. 4. And the captain of the gua...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The captain of the guard Namely, Potiphar, Genesis 37:36 , who, probably being informed by his under-keeper of Joseph's great care and faithfulnes...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOSEPH, INTERPRETER OF DREAMS Two men are seen now to be committed to Joseph's care in the prison, the cup bearer and the baker of Pharaoh, king o...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The History of Joseph. B. C. 1717. 1 A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A season, Heb. days, i.e. either many days, or a year, as that word sometimes signifies. See Genesis 24:55 .
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. And the captain of the guard...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— The butler. ] “The cupbearer and overseer of the wine—making and storing and serving, an important officer of the king. ( 2 Kings...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 40:4 . Captain of the guard; that is, Potiphar who had a controul over the gaoler. It would seem, by enlarging Joseph's liberty in prison,...
The Biblical Illustrator

The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them Light upon Joseph’s destiny This chapter discovers signs that Joseph was...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 40:1 And it came to pass (literally, and it was ) after these things (literally, words , i.e. after the transact...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Dreams of the two Prisoners
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; and they continued a season in ward. Since the prisoners were men of disti...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Joseph in Prison Genesis 40:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We left Joseph, in chapter 39, in prison under the order of Potiphar, captain of the guard...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The captain of the guard, which was Potiphar, charged Joseph with them — Which intimates that he began now to be reconciled to him.

⁴ And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 40:4

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 40:4