Genesis 42:9
Joseph also remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them and said to them, “You spies! You have come to find out the weaknesses of the land.”
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8So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not know him.
10But they said to him, “No my lord; your servants have come to buy food.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11Therefore his brothers envied him; but his father kept the matter in mind.
Genesis 42:30“The man who is master in that land spoke harshly to us and imprisoned us as spies.
Joshua 6:23So the young spies went and brought Rahab out, with her father and mother and brothers and all she had, all her family. They placed them outside the camp of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →