Genesis 42:9
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.
Genesis 42:30The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
Exodus 32:35And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Numbers 13:16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
Joshua 6:23And the young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had, all her kindred also they brought out; and they set them without the camp of Israel.
1 Samuel 26:4David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
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 →