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Genesis 40:19

in Genesis 40

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

KJV

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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This verse in Genesis 40

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Lift up thy head from off thee - Thus we find that beheading, hanging, and gibbeting, were modes of punishment among the ancient Egyptians; but the criminal was beheaded before he was hanged, and then either hanged on hooks, or by the hands. See Lam 5:12.

This site's exposition

The three baskets are three days

on Genesis 40:18-19

Joseph gives the true reading when the true reading is a death sentence. Pharaoh will lift off the head this time, and the body goes on a tree for the birds. Clarke notes that Egyptian practice beheaded the man first and hung the body after, so the two halves belong to one sentence. The word that restored the cupbearer condemns the baker.

This site's exposition

hang you on a tree

Egyptians set great weight on the burial of the body, and a body left for the birds to eat its flesh was denied it. The law at Deuteronomy 21:22 to 23 ordered a hanged body taken down before night. Paul applies that verse to Christ at Galatians 3:13.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head from off thee,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus hypocrites, when they hear good things promised to good Christians, would put in for a share, though they have no part nor lot in the matter. It was not Joseph's fault that he brought him no better tidings. Ministers are but interpreters, they cannot make the thing otherwise than it is; if therefore they deal faithfully, and their message prove unpleasing, it is not their fault.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּע֣וֹד׀in again

    beodH5750 →490 times

  • שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • יָמִ֗יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • יִשָּׂ֨אhe will lift up

    yisa'H5375 →656 times

  • פַרְעֹ֤הPharaoh

    farohH6547 →274 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רֹֽאשְׁךָ֙head your

    roshekhaH7218 →599 times

  • מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָfrom on <the> you

    mealeikhaH5921 →5755 times

  • וְתָלָ֥הand he will hang

    vetalahH8518 →27 times

  • אוֹתְךָ֖<obj.> you

    ʾotkhaH853 →10935 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • עֵ֑ץa tree

    ʾetzH6086 →328 times

  • וְאָכַ֥לand it will eat

    veakhalH398 →810 times

  • הָע֛וֹףthe bird[s]

    haofH5775 →71 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּשָׂרְךָ֖flesh your

    besarekhaH1320 →270 times

  • מֵעָלֶֽיךָ׃from on <the> you

    mealeikhaH5921 →5755 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Esther 6:13Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”6 worksGenesis 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.5 worksGenesis 40:22But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.5 worksGenesis 40:13Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.3 worksEsther 2:23After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.3 worksDeuteronomy 21:22–23If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Joshua 8:29He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.2 worksProverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.2 works2 Samuel 21:6let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.2 worksJoshua 10:26After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.2 worksGenesis 40:17In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”2 works1 Samuel 17:46This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.2 worksEzekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.2 works2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.2 worksGalatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”2 worksGenesis 41:13And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”2 works1 Samuel 17:44“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”2 worksActs 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 30:17

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 21:18–21

      If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

    • Proverbs 30:11

      There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

    • Proverbs 23:22

      Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

    • 2 Samuel 18:14–17

      But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive…

    • Leviticus 20:9

      If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Through

    Genesis 40:13

    Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 52:31

      On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned…

    • Psalms 3:3

      But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

    • 2 Kings 25:27

      On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from…

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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