TSK - GENESIS 44

  1  Joseph's policy to stay his brethren.
 6  The cup is found in Benjamin's sack.
14  They are brought before Joseph.
18  Judah's humble supplication to Joseph.


VERSE 1
- the steward.  Heb. him that was over his house.
   * Ge 24:2; 43:16,19
- Fill the.
   * Ge 42:25; 43:2 Isa 3:1

VERSE 2
    * Ge 42:15,16,20; 43:32 De 8:2,16; 13:3 Mt 10:16 2Co 8:8

VERSE 3


VERSE 4 
 - Up.
   * De 2:16
- Wherefore.
   * 1Sa 24:17 2Ch 20:11 Ps 35:12; 109:5 Pr 17:13 Joh 10:32


VERSE 5 
 - divineth.  or, maketh trial.
   * :15 *marg:
   * Ge 30:27 Le 19:26 1Ki 20:33 2Ki 21:6
  In the East, there is an ancient tradition, that there was a
  Cup which possessed the strange property of representing in
  it the whole world, and all the things which were then doing.
  The cup is called {Jami Jemsheed,} "the cup of Jemsheed," a
  very ancient king of Persia; and they say that it was
  discovered, filled with the elixir of immortality, when
  digging to lay the foundations of Persepolis.  The Persian
  poets are full of allusions to this cup, which they style
  {Jem jehan nima,} the cup shewing the universe; and to it
  they ascribe all the prosperity of their ancient monarchs.
  Many of the Mahometan princes and governors affect still to
  have information by means of a cup.  Now, though it cannot be
  admitted that Joseph practised divination, yet, according to
  the superstition of those times, supernatural influence might
  be attributed to HIS CUP.

VERSE 6
    * :6

VERSE 7
    * Ge 34:25-31; 35:22; 37:18-32; 38:16-18 Jos 22:22-29 2Sa 20:20
   * 2Ki 8:13 Pr 22:1 Ec 7:1 Heb 13:18


VERSE 8 
 - the money.
   * Ge 42:21,27,35; 43:12,21,22
- how then.  See on ver.
   * :7 Ex 20:15 De 5:19 Mt 19:18 Ro 13:9 Jas 2:10,11


VERSE 9 
 - both.
   * Ge 31:32 Job 31:38-40 Ps 7:3-5 Ac 25:11
- and we.
   * Ge 43:18


VERSE 10 
 - he with whom.
   * :17,33 Ex 22:3 Mt 18:24,25

VERSE 11


VERSE 12 
 - began.
   * Ge 43:33
- and the cup.
   * :26-32; 42:36-38; 43:14

VERSE 13
    * Ge 37:29-34 Nu 14:6 2Sa 1:2,11; 13:19


VERSE 14 
 - he was yet.
   * Ge 43:16,25
- fell.
   * Ge 37:7-9; 50:18 Php 2:10,11


VERSE 15 
 - What.
   * :4,5; 3:13; 4:10
- wot ye not.
   * Ge 21:26; 39:8 Ex 32:1
- divine.  or, make trial.
   * :5


VERSE 16 
 - Judah.
   * :32; 43:8,9
- What shall we say.
   * De 25:1 Ezr 9:10,15 Job 40:4 Pr 17:15 Isa 5:3 Da 9:7 Ac 2:37
- God hath.
   * Ge 37:18-28; 42:21,22 Nu 32:23 Jos 7:1,18 Jud 1:7 Pr 28:17 Mt 7:2
   * Lu 12:2
- iniquity.
   * Ge 43:9 Isa 27:9 Da 9:7
- behold.
   * :9; 37:7,9


VERSE 17 
 - God forbid.
   * Ge 18:25; 42:18 2Sa 23:3 Ps 75:2 Pr 17:15
- he shall.
   * :10
- in peace.
   * Ge 26:29; 37:32,33


VERSE 18 
 - Oh my Lord.
  "No paraphrase," says Dr. A. Clarke, "can heighten the effect
  of Judah's address to Joseph.  To add, would be to diminish
  its excellence; to attempt to explain, would be to obscure
  its beauties; to clothe the ideas in other language than that
  of Judah, and his translators in our Bible, would ruin its
  energy, and destroy its influence.  It is perhaps one of the
  most tender, affecting pieces of natural oratory ever spoken
  or penned:  and we need not wonder to find that, when Joseph
  heard it, he could not refrain himself, but wept aloud.  His
  soul must have been insensible beyond what is common to human
  nature, had he not immediately yielded to a speech so
  delicately tender, and so powerfully impressive."

- let thy.
   * Ge 18:30,32 2Sa 14:12 Job 33:31 Ac 2:29
- anger.
   * Ex 32:22 Es 1:12 Ps 79:5
- as Pharaoh.
   * Ge 41:40,44 Pr 19:12 Da 3:15,19-23; 5:19 Joh 5:22

VERSE 19
    * Ge 42:7-10; 43:7,29


VERSE 20 
 - we said.
  Every word in this verse is simplicity and pathos itself.  No
  man of the least sensibility can read it without great
  emotion.  Indeed the whole speech is exquisitely beautiful,
  and perhaps the most complete pattern of genuine natural
  eloquence extant in any language.  When we read this generous
  speech, we forgive Judah all the past, and cannot refuse to
  say, "Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise."

   * Ge 49:8
- a child.
   * Ge 35:18; 37:3,19; 43:7,8; 46:21
- and his brother.
   * Ge 37:33-35; 42:36,38
- he alone.
   * :27-29 Lu 7:12


VERSE 21 
 - Bring.
   * Ge 42:15,20; 43:29
- that I may.
   * Jer 24:6; 40:4 Am 9:4


VERSE 22 
 - his father would die.
   * :30; 42:38

VERSE 23
    * Ge 42:15-20; 43:3,5


VERSE 24 
 - we told him.
   * Ge 42:29-34

VERSE 25
    * Ge 43:2,5

VERSE 26
    * Ge 43:4,5 Lu 11:7

VERSE 27
    * Ge 29:18-21,28; 30:22-25; 35:16-18; 46:19


VERSE 28 
 - the one.
   * Ge 37:13,14
- Surely.
   * Ge 37:33; 42:36,38


VERSE 29 
 - And if.
   * Ge 42:36,38; 43:14 Ps 88:3,4
- sorrow.
   * :31; 42:38 De 31:17 Ps 88:4


VERSE 30 
 - When I.
   * :17,31,34
- his life
   * 1Sa 18:1; 25:29 2Sa 18:33


VERSE 31 
 - when he.
   * 1Sa 4:17,18 2Co 7:10 1Th 4:13
- servants shall.
   * :29; 37:26,27,35 1Sa 22:22
- grave.
   * :29; 37:35

VERSE 32
    * Ge 43:8,9,16


VERSE 33 
 - therefore.
  What must Benjamin have felt when he heard his brother
  conclude his speech by a proposal which could never have been
  thought of if it had not been actually made!  Perhaps the
  annals of the whole world do not produce an instance of so
  heroic and disinterested affection in any mere man.

- I pray thee.
   * Ex 32:32 Ro 5:7-10; 9:3
- instead.
   * Heb 7:22 1Jo 3:16


VERSE 34 
 - lest.
   * 1Sa 2:33,34 2Ch 34:28 Es 8:6 Jer 52:10,11
- come on.  Heb. find.
   * Ex 18:8 Job 31:29 Ps 116:3; 119:143 *marg:



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