Genesis 44:4
When they had not gone far from the city, Joseph said to the servant in charge of things in his house, “Pursue those men immediately. When you catch up to them, say to them, ‘We did good things for you! Why have you paid us back by doing something bad to us?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
3The next morning at dawn the men started on the way home with their donkeys.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:17He said, “You are a better man than I am. You have done something very good to me when I tried to do something very bad to you.
Psalms 35:12In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me, with the result that I feel that I am alone.
Proverbs 17:13If someone does something evil in return for something good being done to him, evil/trouble will never leave that person’s family.
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 →