Genesis 40:19
After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
18Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;
Cross References
Genesis 40:13After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.
Genesis 40:22But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.
Deuteronomy 21:22If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;
Joshua 10:26Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.
1 Samuel 17:46This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;
2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →