Genesis 42:17
He put them all together into custody for three days.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:4The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.
Psalms 119:65You have treated your servant well, according to your word, LORD.
Acts 4:3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Hebrews 12:10For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
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 →