Genesis 42:1
Then Jacob, hearing that food was being sold in Egypt, said to his sons: “Why are you negligent?
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Genesis 41:57And all the provinces came to Egypt, to buy food and to temper the misfortune of their destitution.
Exodus 5:19And the first among the sons of Israel saw themselves in a crisis, because it was said to them, “Nothing at all will be lessened from the bricks throughout each day.”
Joshua 7:10And the Lord said to Joshua: “Rise up. Why are you lying flat on the ground?
2 Kings 8:3And when the seven years had ended, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she departed, so that she might petition the king on behalf of her house and on behalf of her fields.
Jeremiah 8:14“Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.
Acts 7:12But when Jacob had heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.
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 →