Genesis 40:19

In three days more, will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

In Context

18And Joseph responded and said, This, is the interpretation thereof, The three baskets, are, three days:

20And it came to pass on the third day the birthday of Pharaoh, that he made a banquet for all his servants, and uplifted the head of the chief of the butlers and the head of the chief of the bakers in the midst of his servants;

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Cross References

Genesis 40:13In three days more, will Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee to thine office, and thou shalt set the cup of Pharaoh in his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler.

Genesis 40:22but, the chief of the bakers, he hanged,—as, Joseph, had interpreted unto them.

Deuteronomy 21:22But when there shall be in any man a sin worthy of death and he is to be put to death,—and thou shalt hang him on a tree,

Joshua 10:26And Joshua smote them after this, and put them to death, and hanged them upon five trees,—and they remained hung on the trees, until the evening,

1 Samuel 17:46This day, will Yahweh deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee, and will give thy dead body and the dead bodies of the host of Philistines, this day, unto the birds of heaven, and unto the wild beasts of the earth,—that all the earth may know that Israel hath a God;

2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it out for herself, on the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until water poured out upon them from the heavens,—and suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field, [to devour them] by night.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20

5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →

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