Genesis 40:22
But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
In Context
21And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Cross References
Genesis 40:8And they said unto him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it.' And Joseph said unto them: 'Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.'
Genesis 41:11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis 41:16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.'
Daniel 2:19Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel 5:12forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.'
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:21-23
20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. Here is, 1. The verifying of Joseph's interpretation of the dreams, on the very… Read the whole commentary →