Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?
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Genesis 41:57And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.
Exodus 5:19Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.
Joshua 7:10Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?
2 Kings 8:3And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.
Jeremiah 8:14Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
Acts 7:12But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1
We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →