Genesis 42:9
And Joseph remembered the dreams about them bowing down to him. He said to them, “I think you are spies. You are looking to see if our country is weak, so that you can fight us.”
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Joseph knew who they were, but they did not know that he was Joseph, their brother.
10But they cried out, “No Sir! We are not spies. We are like slaves to you. We just want to buy food.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11Joseph's brothers were jealous and upset with him, but his father kept thinking about Joseph's dream all the time.
Genesis 42:30They said, “The boss of Egypt said hard words to us. He said that we were spies and were finding out about his country.
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 →