Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt. And Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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Genesis 41:57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.
Exodus 5:19And the officers of the sons of Israel saw that they were in affliction, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish anything from your bricks, [your] daily tasks.
Joshua 7:10And LORD said to Joshua, Get thee up. Why are thou thus fallen upon thy face?
2 Kings 8:3And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.
Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard of grain being in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1
We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →