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Selected Verse: Genesis 42:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 42:7 |
Strong Concordance |
And Joseph [03130] saw [07200] his brethren [0251], and he knew [05234] them, but made himself strange [05234] unto them, and spake [01696] roughly [07186] unto them; and he said [0559] unto them, Whence [0370] come [0935] ye? And they said [0559], From the land [0776] of Canaan [03667] to buy [07666] food [0400]. |
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King James |
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. |
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] |
Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, . . . but they knew not him--This is not strange. They were full-grown men--he was but a lad at parting. They were in their usual garb--he was in his official robes. They never dreamt of him as governor of Egypt, while he had been expecting them. They had but one face; he had ten persons to judge by.
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly--It would be an injustice to Joseph's character to suppose that this stern manner was prompted by any vindictive feelings--he never indulged any resentment against others who had injured him. But he spoke in the authoritative tone of the governor in order to elicit some much-longed-for information respecting the state of his father's family, as well as to bring his brethren, by their own humiliation and distress, to a sense of the evils they had done to him. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Joseph recognised his brothers at once; but they could not recognise a brother who had not been seen for 20 years, and who, moreover, had not only become thoroughly Egyptianized, but had risen to be a great lord. And he acted as a foreigner (יתנכּר) towards them, speaking harshly, and asking them whence they had come. In Gen 42:7, according to a truly Semitic style of narrative, we have a condensation of what is more circumstantially related in Gen 42:8-17. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years he had been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, 'tis strange that he who so oft went throughout all the land of Egypt, never made a step to Canaan, to visit his aged father. When he was in the borders of Egypt that lay next to Canaan, perhaps it would not have been above three or four days journey for him in his chariot. 'Tis a probable conjecture, that his whole management of himself in this affair was by special direction from heaven, that the purpose of God, concerning Jacob and his family, might be accomplished. When Joseph's brethren came, he knew them by many a good token, but they knew not him, little thinking to find him there. |
8 And Joseph [03130] knew [05234] his brethren [0251], but they knew [05234] not him.
9 And Joseph [03130] remembered [02142] the dreams [02472] which he dreamed [02492] of them, and said [0559] unto them, Ye are spies [07270]; to see [07200] the nakedness [06172] of the land [0776] ye are come [0935].
10 And they said [0559] unto him, Nay, my lord [0113], but to buy [07666] food [0400] are thy servants [05650] come [0935].
11 We [05168] are all one [0259] man's [0376] sons [01121]; we are true [03651] men, thy servants [05650] are no spies [07270].
12 And he said [0559] unto them, Nay, but to see [07200] the nakedness [06172] of the land [0776] ye are come [0935].
13 And they said [0559], Thy servants [05650] are twelve [08147] [06240] brethren [0251], the sons [01121] of one [0259] man [0376] in the land [0776] of Canaan [03667]; and, behold, the youngest [06996] is this day [03117] with our father [01], and one [0259] is not.
14 And Joseph [03130] said [0559] unto them, That is it that I spake [01696] unto you, saying [0559], Ye are spies [07270]:
15 Hereby [02063] ye shall be proved [0974]: By the life [02416] of Pharaoh [06547] ye shall not go forth [03318] hence, except your youngest [06996] brother [0251] come [0935] hither.
16 Send [07971] one [0259] of you, and let him fetch [03947] your brother [0251], and ye shall be kept in prison [0631], that your words [01697] may be proved [0974], whether there be any truth [0571] in [0854] you: or else [03808] by the life [02416] of Pharaoh [06547] surely ye are spies [07270].
17 And he put them all together [0622] into ward [04929] three [07969] days [03117].
7 And Joseph [03130] saw [07200] his brethren [0251], and he knew [05234] them, but made himself strange [05234] unto them, and spake [01696] roughly [07186] unto them; and he said [0559] unto them, Whence [0370] come [0935] ye? And they said [0559], From the land [0776] of Canaan [03667] to buy [07666] food [0400].