Genesis 40:19
In three days' time Pharaoh will take you out of prison and hang you on a pole, and birds will eat your flesh.”
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In Context
18“This is the meaning,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets represent three days.
Cross References
Genesis 40:13In three days' time Pharaoh will take you out of prison and give you back your job, and you will hand Pharaoh his cup as you used to.
Genesis 40:22But he hanged the chief baker just as Joseph had said when he interpreted their dreams.
Deuteronomy 21:22If someone commits a crime punishable by death, and the person is executed by hanging on a tree,
Joshua 10:26Then Joshua killed the kings and hung their bodies on five trees and left them hanging there until the evening.
1 Samuel 17:46Today the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the dead bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and the wild animals. Then all the world will know that there is a God who acts for Israel.
2 Samuel 21:10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the time the rains came and poured down on the bodies, she kept the birds away from them during the day and the wild animals at night.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →