Genesis 39:20 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 39:20

So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,

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ASV

And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

KJV

And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On Joseph the Patriarch (397)

Therefore I might say Joseph was happier when he was put into prison, because he was giving witness on behalf of chastity. For modesty is a good gift but one of lesser merit when it involves no risk. Where, however, it is maintained at the risk of one's safety, there it wins a more abundant crown. With his case unheard, his truthfulness unexamined, Joseph is sent into prison as if guilty of a crime. But the Lord did not abandon him even in prison.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Where the king's prisoners were bound - Potiphar, it is likely, chose that prison because it was the worst; for there the irons entered into the soul, Psalm cv, 18, but God designed it to pave the way to his enlargement. Our Lord Jesus, like Joseph was bound, and numbered with the transgressors.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Accused persons were cast into them until the charges against them could be investigated; and though the jailer was responsible for the appearance of those placed under his custody, yet, provided they were produced when called, he was never interrogated as to the way in which he had kept them.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּח֩	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
אֲדֹנֵ֨י	'a.do.Nei	[the] master<s> of	H113 →
יוֹסֵ֜ף	yo.Sef	Joseph	H3130 →
אֹת֗וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֙הוּ֙	vai.yi.te.Ne.hu	and he put him	H5414 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
הַסֹּ֔הַר	ha.So.har	the prison	H5470 →
מְק֕וֹם	me.Kom	[the] place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	<of> where	H834 →
אֲסִירֵ֥י	'a.su.rei	[the] prisoners of	H615 →
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
אֲסוּרִ֑ים	'a.su.Rim	[were] imprisoned	H631 →
וַֽיְהִי־	vay.hi-	and he was	H1961 →
שָׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
בְּבֵ֥ית	be.Veit	in [the] house of	H1004 →
הַסֹּֽהַר׃	ha.So.har	the prison	H5470 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 53:8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
leads to
- Acts 8:33
  In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Matthew 26:65–66
  At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.
- John 19:7
  “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
- Psalms 22:12–21
  Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Through
Genesis 40:15
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
leads to
- 1 Peter 3:17–18
  For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
- Genesis 41:12
  Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
- Acts 24:12–21
  Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

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