Genesis 42:17
Therefore, he delivered them into custody for three days.
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In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 40:4But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, who ministered to them also. Some little time passed by, while they were held in custody.
Genesis 41:10The king, being angry with his servants, ordered me and the chief miller of grain to be forced into the prison of the leader of the military.
Acts 4:3And they laid hands on them, and they placed them under guard until the next day. For it was now evening.
Hebrews 12:10And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 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. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →