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Selected Verse: Genesis 37:5 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 37:5 |
Strong Concordance |
And Joseph [03130] dreamed [02492] a dream [02472], and he told [05046] it his brethren [0251]: and they hated [08130] him yet the more [03254]. |
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King James |
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
THE DREAMS OF JOSEPH. (Gen. 37:5-36)
Joseph dreamed a dream--Dreams in ancient times were much attended to, and hence the dream of Joseph, though but a mere boy, engaged the serious consideration of his family. But this dream was evidently symbolical. The meaning was easily discerned, and, from its being repeated under different emblems, the fulfilment was considered certain (compare Gen 41:32), whence it was that "his brethren envied him, but his father observed the saying" [Gen 37:11]. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
This hatred was increased when Joseph told them of two dreams that he had had: viz., that as they were binding sheaves in the field, his sheaf "stood and remained standing," but their sheaves placed themselves round it and bowed down to it; and that the sun (his father), and the moon (his mother, "not Leah, but Rachel, who was neither forgotten nor lost"), and eleven stars (his eleven brethren) bowed down before him. These dreams pointed in an unmistakeable way to the supremacy of Joseph; the first to supremacy over his brethren, the second over the whole house of Israel. The repetition seemed to establish the thing as certain (cf. Gen 41:32); so that not only did his brethren hate him still more "on account of his dreams and words" (Gen 37:8), i.e., the substance of the dreams and the open interpretation of them, and become jealous and envious, but his father gave him a sharp reproof for the second, though he preserved the matter, i.e., retained it in his memory (שׁמר lxx διετήρησε, cf. συνετήρει, Luk 2:19). The brothers with their ill-will could not see anything in the creams but the suggestions of his own ambition and pride of heart; and even the father, notwithstanding his partiality, was grieved by the second dream. The dreams are not represented as divine revelations; yet they are not to be regarded as pure flights of fancy from an ambitious heart, but as the presentiments of deep inward feelings, which were not produced without some divine influence being exerted upon Joseph's mind, and therefore were of prophetic significance, though they were not inspired directly by God, inasmuch as the purposes of God were still to remain hidden from the eyes of men for the saving good of all concerned. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Though he was now very young, about seventeen years old, yet he was pious and devout, and this fitted him for God's gracious discoveries to him. Joseph had a great deal of trouble before him, and therefore God gave him betimes this prospect of his advancement, to support and comfort him. |
11 And his brethren [0251] envied [07065] him; but his father [01] observed [08104] the saying [01697].
32 And for that the dream [02472] was doubled [08138] unto Pharaoh [06547] twice [06471]; it is because the thing [01697] is established [03559] by [05973] God [0430], and God [0430] will shortly [04116] bring it to pass [06213].
19 But [1161] Mary [3137] kept [4933] all [3956] these things [4487] [5023], and pondered [4820] them in [1722] her [846] heart [2588].
8 And his brethren [0251] said [0559] to him, Shalt thou indeed [04427] reign [04427] over us? or shalt thou indeed [04910] have dominion [04910] over us? And they hated [08130] him yet the more [03254] for his dreams [02472], and for his words [01697].
32 And for that the dream [02472] was doubled [08138] unto Pharaoh [06547] twice [06471]; it is because the thing [01697] is established [03559] by [05973] God [0430], and God [0430] will shortly [04116] bring it to pass [06213].