Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Updated King James Version
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And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
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Cross References
Genesis 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Genesis 39:2And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:21But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 49:23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Psalms 105:17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17
Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →