Chapter 45

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could not Gen 43:30-31; Isa 42:14; Jer 20:9

Cause 2Sam 1:20; Matt 18:15; Acts 10:41; 1Cor 13:5


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wept aloud Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping, "This," says Sir J. Chardin, "is exactly the genius of the people of Asia; their sentiments of joy or grief are properly transports, and their transports are ungoverned, excessive, and truly outrageous. When anyone returns from a long journey or dies, his family burst into cries that may be heard twenty doors off; and this is renewed at different times, and continues many days, according to the vigour of the passion. Sometimes they cease all at once, and then begin as suddenly, with a greater shrillness and loudness than one could easily imagine." Num 14:1; Ruth 1:9; 2Kgs 20:3; Acts 20:37


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I am Joseph Matt 14:27; Acts 7:13, Acts 9:5

for they Job 4:5, Job 23:15; Zech 12:10; Matt 14:26; Mark 6:50; Luke 5:8, Luke 24:37-38; Rev 1:7

troubled or, terrified


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I am Joseph Gen 37:28, Gen 50:18; Matt 14:27; Acts 9:5


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be not grieved Isa 40:1-2; Luke 23:34; 2Cor 2:7, 2Cor 2:11

nor angry with yourselves Heb. neither let there be anger in your eyes

God Gen 45:7-8, Gen 47:25, Gen 50:20; 1Sam 1:19; 2Sam 12:12, 2Sam 16:10-12, 2Sam 17:14; Job 1:21; Ps 105:16-17; Acts 2:23-24, Acts 4:24-28, Acts 7:9-15


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two years Gen 41:29-31, Gen 41:54, Gen 41:56, Gen 47:18

earing Earing means ploughing or seed-time from the Anglo-Saxon erian, probably from aro, to plough; and agrees with αροω G723, Greek, charatha, Arabic, and charash, Hebrew. Gen 47:23; Exod 34:21; Deut 21:4; 1Sam 8:12; Isa 30:24


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to preserve you a posterity Heb. to put for you a remnant, to save. Judg 15:18; 1Chr 11:14; Ps 18:50, Ps 44:4; Acts 7:35


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it was not Gen 45:5; John 15:16, John 19:11; Rom 9:16

father Gen 41:39-48; Judg 17:10; Job 29:16; Ps 105:21-22


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Thus saith Gen 45:26-28

come Gen 45:13, Gen 45:19-20


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in the land Gen 46:29, Gen 46:34, Gen 47:1-6; Exod 8:22, Exod 9:26

Goshen Goshen was the most eastern district of Lower Egypt, and the frontier of that country and Arabia, not far from the Arabian gulf, and lying next to Canaan; for Jacob went directly thither when he came into Egypt, from which it was about eighty miles distant, though Hebron was distant from the Egyptian capital about three hundred miles.

be near John 14:2-3, John 17:24


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Gen 47:6, Gen 47:12; Matt 15:5-6; Mark 7:9-12; 1Tim 5:4


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your eyes Gen 42:23; Luke 24:39; John 20:27

my mouth Not as Gen 42:23


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my glory John 17:24; 1Pet 1:10-12; Rev 21:23

bring Acts 7:14


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Gen 29:11, Gen 33:4, Gen 46:29; Rom 1:31


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Moreover Gen 45:2, Gen 29:11, Gen 29:13, Gen 33:4; Exod 4:27; Ruth 1:9, Ruth 1:14; 1Sam 10:1, 1Sam 20:41; 2Sam 14:33; Luke 15:20; Acts 20:37

talked Ps 77:4


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it pleased Pharaoh well Heb. was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, Gen 16:6, Gen 20:15, Gen 34:18, Gen 41:33; Deut 1:33; 2Sam 3:36; 2Chr 30:4; Esth 1:21, Esth 2:4; Esth 5:14; Acts 6:5


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lade your Gen 42:25-26, Gen 44:1-2


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the fat Gen 27:28, Gen 47:6; Num 18:12, Num 18:29; Deut 32:14; Ps 81:16, Ps 147:14; Isa 28:1, Isa 28:4


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commanded Isa 49:1, Isa 49:23

wagons Gen 45:27, Gen 46:5

for your Gen 31:17-18


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regard not Heb. let not your eye spare, etc. Deut 7:16, Deut 19:13, Deut 19:21; Isa 13:18; Ezek 7:4, Ezek 7:9, Ezek 9:5, Ezek 20:17

stuff Exod 22:7; Josh 7:11; 1Sam 10:22, 1Sam 25:13, 1Sam 30:24; Ezek 12:3-4; Matt 24:17; Luke 17:31

the good Gen 45:18, Gen 20:15; Ezra 9:12; Isa 1:19


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wagons Gen 45:19, Gen 45:27, Gen 46:5; Num 7:3-9; Ezek 23:24

commandment Heb. mouth, Gen 45:19; Exod 17:1; Num 3:16; 2Chr 8:13, 2Chr 35:16; Eccl 8:2; Lam 1:18


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To all It is a common custom with all the Asiatic sovereigns to give both garments and money to ambassadors and persons of distinction, whom they particularly wish to honour. De la Motraye says, "that they then clothed them (the ambassadors) with caffetans (long vests of gold or silver brocade) with large silk flowers."

each Judg 14:12, Judg 14:19; 2Kgs 5:5, 2Kgs 5:22-23; Rev 6:11

to Benjamin Gen 43:34


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laden with Heb. carrying, Gen 45:17

good things Gen 24:10, Gen 43:11; Exod 16:3

meat As mazon is derived from zoon, to prepare, provide, Dr. A. Clarke thinks it may mean here prepared meat; some made-up dish, delicacies, confectionaries, etc. In Asiatic countries they have several curious methods of preserving flesh by potting, by which it may be kept, for any length of time, sweet and wholesome. Some delicacy, similar to the savoury meat which Isaac loved, may here be intended; sent to Jacob in consideration of his age, and to testify the respect of his son; for of other kinds of meat he could have no need, as he had large flocks and herds, and could kill a lamb, kid, etc. when he pleased.


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See that Gen 37:22, Gen 42:21-22; Ps 133:1-3; John 13:34-35; Eph 4:31-32; Phil 2:2-5; Col 3:12-13; 1Thess 5:13


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Joseph Luke 24:34

and he is Gen 45:8-9; Ps 105:21

And Jacob's Heb. And his, Gen 37:35, Gen 42:36, Gen 42:38, Gen 44:28; Jonah 2:7

he believed Job 9:16, Job 29:24; Ps 126:1; Luke 24:11, Luke 24:41


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the spirit Judg 15:19; 1Sam 30:12; Ps 85:6; Isa 57:15; Hos 6:2


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It is enough Gen 46:30; Luke 2:28-30; John 16:21-22


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