Genesis 42:17
So he put them in warde three dayes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
18Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:4And the chiefe steward gaue Ioseph charge ouer them, and he serued them: and they continued a season in warde.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh being angrie with his seruantes, put me in ward in the chiefe stewards house, both me and the chiefe baker.
Psalms 119:65TETH. O Lord, thou hast delt graciously with thy seruant according vnto thy woorde.
Acts 4:3And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.
Hebrews 12:10For they verely for a few dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he chasteneth vs for our profite, that we might be partakers of his holinesse.
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 →