Genesis 42:17
And he put them in custody three days.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:4And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, that he should attend on them. And they were [several] days in custody.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.
Psalms 119:65TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Jehovah, according to thy word.
Acts 4:3and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the morrow; for it was already evening.
Hebrews 12:10For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.
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 →