Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could not control himself before all the servants who stood by him. He said loudly, “Everyone must leave me.” So no servant stood by him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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2He wept loudly, the Egyptians heard it, and the house of Pharaoh heard of it.
Cross References
Genesis 42:24He turned from them and wept. He returned to them and spoke to them. He took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
2 Samuel 1:20Do not tell it in Gath, 1 do not proclaim it 2 in the streets of Ashkelon, 1 so that the daughters of the 2 Philistines may not rejoice, 1 so that the daughters of the 2 uncircumcised may not celebrate. 1
Isaiah 42:14I have kept quiet for a long time; I have been still and restrained myself; 1 now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. 1
Zechariah 12:10But I will pour out a spirit of compassion and pleading on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they will look on me, the one they have pierced. They will mourn for me, as one mourns for an only son; they will bitterly lament for him like those who lament the death of a firstborn son.
Acts 10:41not by all the people, but to the witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:1
It is a pity that this chapter and the foregoing should be parted, and read asunder. There we had Judah's intercession for Benjamin, with which, we may suppose, the rest of his brethren signified their concurrence; Joseph let him go on without interruption, heard all he had to say, and then answered it all in one word, "I am Joseph." Now he found his brethren humbled for their sins, mindful of himself (for Judah had mentioned him twice in his speech), respectful to their father, and very tender of their brother… Read the whole commentary →