Genesis 41:1
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
Cross References
Genesis 29:14He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
Genesis 37:5Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
Exodus 1:22Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
Deuteronomy 11:10For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
Esther 6:1That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
Isaiah 19:5And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:1
Two things Providence is here bringing about:—I. The advancement of Joseph. II. The maintenance of Jacob and his family in a time of famine; for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the earth, and direct the affairs of the children of men for the benefit of those few whose hearts are upright with him. In order to these, we have here, 1. Pharaoh's dreams, ver. 1-8 . 2. The recommendation of Joseph to him for an interpreter, ver. 9-13 . 3. The interpretation of the dreams, and the prediction of seven years of… Read the whole commentary →