Genesis 44:18
And Judah comes near to him and says, “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not let your anger burn against your servant—for you are as Pharaoh.
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In Context
19My lord has asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or brother?
Cross References
Genesis 18:30And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found there thirty?” And He says, “I do not do [it], if I find there thirty.”
Genesis 37:6And he says to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis 41:44And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “I [am] Pharaoh, and without you a man does not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt”;
2 Samuel 14:12And the woman says, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king”; and he says, “Speak.”
Job 33:31Attend, O Job, listen to me, || Keep silent, and I speak.
Proverbs 19:12The wrath of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, || And his goodwill as dew on the herb.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:2-18
Joseph's Policy. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. 4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up,… Read the whole commentary →