Genesis 43:9
I promise to take care of him—I'll be personally responsible for bringing him back to you. If I don't, then I will always carry the blame!
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In Context
10Now let's go, because if we hadn't hesitated, we could have gone there and come back twice by now.”
Cross References
Genesis 9:5If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
Genesis 42:37“You can kill my two sons if I don't bring him back to you,” Reuben assured him. “Trust me with him, and I will bring him home to you myself.”
1 Kings 1:21If you don't do anything, as soon as Your Majesty dies, I and my son Solomon will be considered traitors…”
Psalms 119:122Please promise you'll take care of me, your servant. Don't let these arrogant people mistreat me.
Ezekiel 3:20Again, if someone who lives right stops doing so and sins and disregards my attempts to correct them, then they will die. If you didn't warn them, they will die in their sins, and the good things they did won't be remembered. In addition, I will hold you responsible for their death.
Ezekiel 33:8If I tell the wicked ‘You're wicked; you're going to die’; but you don't warn them to change what they're doing, then they'll die in their sins and I will hold your responsible for their deaths.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:2-11
Jacob Unwilling to Part with Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down:… Read the whole commentary →