Genesis 41:1
And it comes to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and behold, he is standing by the River,
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Genesis 29:14and Laban says to him, “You [are] surely my bone and my flesh”; and he dwells with him a month of days.
Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreams a dream, and declares to his brothers, and they add still more to hate him.
Exodus 1:22and Pharaoh lays a charge on all his people, saying, “Every son who is born—you cast him into the River, and every daughter you keep alive.”
Deuteronomy 11:10For the land to where you are going in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt from where you have come out, where you sow your seed and have watered with your foot, as a garden of the green herb;
Esther 6:1On that night the sleep of the king has fled away, and he commands to bring in the scroll of memorials of the chronicles, and they are read before the king,
Isaiah 19:5And waters have failed from the sea, || And a river is desolated and dried up.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:1
Two things Providence is here bringing about:—I. The advancement of Joseph. II. The maintenance of Jacob and his family in a time of famine; for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the earth, and direct the affairs of the children of men for the benefit of those few whose hearts are upright with him. In order to these, we have here, 1. Pharaoh's dreams, ver. 1-8 . 2. The recommendation of Joseph to him for an interpreter, ver. 9-13 . 3. The interpretation of the dreams, and the prediction of seven years of… Read the whole commentary →