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Genesis Chapter 43
Overview
Gen 43:1, Jacob is hardly persuaded to send Benjamin; Gen 43:15, Joseph entertains his brethren; Gen 43:19, They discover their fears to the steward; Gen 43:26, Joseph makes them a feast.
Gen 18:13, Gen 41:54-57, Gen 42:5; Ecc 9:1, Ecc 9:2; Lam 5:10; Act 7:11-13
Gen 43:4, Gen 43:20, Gen 42:1, Gen 42:2; Pro 15:16, Pro 16:18, Pro 31:16; Ti1 5:8, Ti1 6:6-8
man: Gen 42:15-20, Gen 42:33, Gen 42:34, Gen 44:23
did solemnly protest: Heb. protesting, protested, Act 7:34
see my face: Gen 43:5; Sa2 3:13, Sa2 14:24, Sa2 14:28, Sa2 14:32; Act 20:25, Act 20:38
will not: Gen 42:38, Gen 44:26; Exo 20:12
asked us straitly: Heb. asking asked us, Gen 43:3 *marg.
tenor: Heb. mouth
could we certainly know: knowing could we know, Gen 43:3 *marg.
lad with me: Gen 42:38, Gen 44:26; Exo 20:12
that we: Gen 42:2; Deu 33:6; Kg2 7:4, Kg2 7:13; Psa 118:17
also our: Gen 45:19, Gen 50:8, Gen 50:21; Num 14:31; Ezr 8:21
will be: Gen 42:37, Gen 44:32, Gen 44:33; Kg1 1:21; Job 17:3; Psa 119:122; Plm 1:18, Plm 1:19; Heb 7:22
of my hand: Gen 9:5, Gen 31:39; Eze 3:18, Eze 3:20, Eze 33:6, Eze 33:8; Luk 11:50
this second time: or, twice by this
If it must be: Gen 43:14; Est 4:16; Act 21:14
carry down: Gen 32:13-21, Gen 33:10, Gen 37:25; Deu 33:14; Sa1 9:7, Sa1 25:27; Kg1 4:21, Kg1 10:25; Kg1 15:19; Kg2 8:8, Kg2 16:8, Kg2 20:12; Psa 68:29, Psa 72:10, Psa 76:11; Pro 17:18; Pro 18:16, Pro 19:6, Pro 21:14; Eze 27:17
a little balm: Gen 37:25; Jer 8:22; Eze 27:15
balm: For an explanation of the words tzori, nechoth, and lot, here rendered respectively balm, spices, and myrrh, see note on Gen 37:25. Devash, honey, is supposed by some not to have been that produced by bees, but a syrup produced from ripe dates. The Jewish doctors observe, that the word in Ch2 31:5 signifies dates; and the Arabians, at this day, call the choicest dates preserved with butter, dabous, and the honey obtained from them, dibs, or dabs. Benanim, nuts signifies pistachio nuts, the finest thing found in Syria; but, according to the others, a small nut, the produce of a species of the turpentine tree. Shekaidim is certainly almonds.
honey: Lev 20:24
spices: Kg1 10:15; Sol 4:10, Sol 4:14-16, Sol 5:1, Sol 8:14
double: Rom 12:17, Rom 13:8; Co2 8:21; Phi 4:8; Th1 4:6, Th1 5:21; Heb 13:8
And God: Gen 17:1, Gen 22:14, 32:11-28, Gen 39:21; Ezr 7:27; Neh 1:11; Est 4:16; Psa 37:5-7; Psa 85:7, Psa 100:5, Psa 119:41; Pro 1:1, Pro 16:7, Pro 21:1; Isa 49:13; Luk 1:50; Act 7:10, Act 21:14; Ti1 1:2, Ti1 1:16; Tit 1:4; Jo2 1:3
If I be: etc. or, and I, as I have been, etc. Est 4:16
the ruler: Gen 43:19, Gen 15:2, Gen 24:2-10, Gen 39:4, Gen 39:5, Gen 44:1
slay: Heb. kill a killing, Gen 21:8, Gen 26:30, Gen 31:54; Sa1 25:11 Tevoch taivach, "slay a slaying," or make a great slaughter: Let preparations be made for a great feast or entertainment. See note on a similar form of speech in Gen 31:54. Sa1 25:11; Pro 9:2
dine with: Heb. eat
the men: Gen 42:21, Gen 42:28, Gen 42:35; Jdg 13:22; Job 15:21; Psa 53:5, Psa 73:16; Isa 7:2; Mat 14:26, Mat 14:27; Mar 6:16
seek occasion against us: Heb. Roll himself upon us, Deu 22:14, Deu 22:17; Jdg 14:4; Job 30:14; Rom 7:8
we came indeed down: Heb. coming down we came down, Gen 43:3, Gen 43:7, Gen 42:3, Gen 42:10, Gen 42:27, Gen 42:35
we came: Gen 42:27-35
we have: Gen 43:12; Rom 12:17, Rom 13:8; Heb 13:5, Heb 13:18; Pe1 2:12, Pe1 3:16
Peace: Jdg 6:23, Jdg 19:20; Sa1 25:6; Ch1 12:18; Ezr 4:17; Luk 10:5, Luk 24:36; Joh 14:27, Joh 20:19, Joh 20:21, Joh 20:26
I had your money: Heb. Your money came to me, Caspechem ba ailai, "your money comes to me:" as I am the steward, the cash for the corn belongs to me. Ye have no occasion to be apprehensive of any evil; the whole transaction is between myself and you; receive therefore the money as a present from "the God of your father," no matter whose hands he employs to convey it.
Simeon: Gen 43:14, Gen 42:24, Gen 42:36
Gen 18:4, Gen 19:2, Gen 24:32; Luk 7:44; Joh 13:4-17
bowed: Gen 43:28, Gen 27:29, Gen 37:7-10, Gen 37:19, Gen 37:20, Gen 42:6; Psa 72:9; Rom 14:11; Phi 2:10, Phi 2:11
welfare: Heb. peace, Gen 37:14, Gen 41:16; Exo 18:7; Jdg 18:15; Sa1 17:22, Sa1 25:5; Ch1 18:10
Is your father well: Heb. Is there peace to your father, the old. Gen 42:11, Gen 42:13
bowed: Gen 43:26, Gen 37:7, Gen 37:9, Gen 37:10
made obeisance: Exo 18:7; Sa2 1:2, Sa2 14:4; Kg1 1:16; Ch2 24:17
mother's son: Gen 30:22-24, Gen 35:17, Gen 35:18
God: Gen 45:8; Jos 7:19; Ch2 29:11; Psa 133:1, Psa 133:2; Mat 9:2, Mat 9:22; Mar 10:24; Ti1 1:2; Heb 13:1
my son: Num 6:25; Psa 111:4, Psa 112:4; Isa 30:19, Isa 33:2; Mal 1:9
his bowels: Kg1 3:26; Jer 31:20; Hos 11:8; Phi 1:8, Phi 2:1; Col 3:12; Jo1 3:17
wept there: Gen 42:24; Joh 11:33-38; Act 20:19, Act 20:31, Act 20:37; Ti2 1:4
refrained: Gen 45:1; Isa 42:14; Jer 31:16; Pe1 3:10
bread: Gen 43:25
eat bread: Gen 43:16, Gen 31:54
for that is an abomination: The Chaldee Paraphrast renders this clause, "Because the Hebrews eat the cattle which the Egyptians worship." But, as we learn from Gen 43:16, compared with this verse, that the provision for the entertainment of the Egyptians themselves was animal food, this reason cannot be just. The true reason seems to be that assigned by the LXX, Βδελυγμα γαρ εστιν τοις Αιγυπτιοις πας ποιμην προβατων· "For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." Gen 46:34; Exo 8:26
Gen. 43; Gen 44:12
messes: Sa2 11:8
was five times: Sir John Chardin observes, that "in Persia, Arabia, and the Indies, there are some houses where they place several plates in large salvers, and set one of these before each person, or before two or three, according to the magnificence of each house. The great men of the state are always served by themselves, in the feasts that are made for them; and with great profusion, their part of each kind of provision being always double, treble, or a larger proportion of each kind of meat." Gen 45:22; Sa1 1:5, Sa1 9:22-24
were merry: Heb. drank largely, Pro 31:6; Ecc 9:7, Ecc 10:19; Sol 5:1; Hab 1:6; Mat 11:19; Joh 2:10