Genesis 42:1
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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Genesis 41:57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was distressing in all lands.
Exodus 5:19And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks of your daily task.
Joshua 7:10And the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus upon thy face?
2 Kings 8:3And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house, and for her land.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1
We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →