Genesis 49:23

The archers haue greeuously prouoked hym, and shot him through with dartes, they haue hated him to his hinderaunce.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

In Context

22Ioseph is lyke a floryshyng bough, a bough floryshyng by a well syde [whose] small boughes ran vpon the wall.

24But his bowe abode fast, and the armes of his handes were made strong by the handes of the myghtie God of Iacob: Out of him shal come an heardman, a stone in Israel.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loued hym more then all his brethren, they hated hym, and coulde not speake peaceably vnto hym.

Genesis 37:24And they toke hym, and cast hym into an emptie pit, wherein was no water.

Genesis 39:7And after this, his maisters wyfe cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide: [come] lye with me.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:23-28

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings… Read the whole commentary →

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