Genesis 40:22
and the chief of the bakers he has hanged, as Joseph has interpreted to them;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
In Context
23and the chief of the butlers has not remembered Joseph, but forgets him.
Cross References
Genesis 40:8And they say to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it”; and Joseph says to them, “Are interpretations not with God? Please recount to me.”
Genesis 41:11and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed.
Genesis 41:16and Joseph answers Pharaoh, saying, “Without me—God answers Pharaoh with peace.”
Daniel 2:19Then to Daniel, in a vision of the night, the secret has been revealed. Then Daniel has blessed the God of the heavens.
Daniel 5:12because that an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of enigmas, and loosing of knots was found in him, in Daniel, whose name the king made Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and the interpretation he shows.”
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 →