Verse | Translation | Text |
Ge 42:24 | Strong Concordance | And he turned himself about [05437] from them, and wept [01058]; and returned to them again [07725], and communed [01696] with them, and took [03947] from them Simeon [08095], and bound [0631] him before their eyes [05869]. |
King James | And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
took . . . Simeon, and bound him--He had probably been the chief instigator--the most violent actor in the outrage upon Joseph; and if so, his selection to be the imprisoned and fettered hostage for their return would, in the present course of their reflections, have a painful significance. |