Acts 7:9
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 39:2And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.
Genesis 39:21the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
Genesis 49:23The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
Psalms 105:17He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17
Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →