Genesis 44:24
in Genesis 44Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
KJV
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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This verse in Genesis 44
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Now when we returned to your servant my father
on Genesis 44:24-26
The return home is told, the words relayed, the food gone, and the father saying go back and buy. Judah lets the famine do the arguing, and hunger is what moved the old man to let Benjamin go. They could not go down unless the younger brother went with them.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), all which intimated that he designed him some kindness; and must he be brought with so much difficulty to the preferment of a perpetual slavery? Was he not brought to Egypt, in obedience, purely in obedience, to the command of Joseph? and would he not show him some mercy?
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And for which he would search thoroughly - So it may be rendered. God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants - Referring to the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in those afflictions wherein we apprehend ourselves wronged by men, yet we must own that God is righteous, and finds out our iniquity.
And it came to pass, when we came unto thy servant my father,.... In the land of Canaan: we told him the words of my lord; what he had said to them, particularly respecting Benjamin.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Joseph's behavior must not be viewed from any single point, or in separate parts, but as a whole--a well-thought, deep-laid, closely connected plan; and though some features of it do certainly exhibit an appearance of harshness, yet the pervading principle of his conduct was real, genuine, brotherly kindness.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְהִי֙ | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כִּ֣י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| עָלִ֔ינוּ | ʾalinu | we went up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| אֶֽל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עַבְדְּךָ֖ | ʾavdekha | servant your | H5650 → | 799 times |
| אָבִ֑י | ʾavi | father my | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וַנַּ֨גֶּד־ | vanaged- | and we told | H5046 → | 370 times |
| ל֔וֹ | lo | to him | ||
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| דִּבְרֵ֥י | divrei | [the] words of | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| אֲדֹנִֽי׃ | ʾadoni | lord my | H113 → | 333 times |
וַיְהִי֙and it was
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
כִּ֣יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
עָלִ֔ינוּwe went up
ʾalinuH5927 →890 times
אֶֽל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
עַבְדְּךָ֖servant your
ʾavdekhaH5650 →799 times
אָבִ֑יfather my
ʾaviH1 →1212 times
וַנַּ֨גֶּד־and we told
vanaged-H5046 →370 times
ל֔וֹto him
lo
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] words of
divreiH1697 →1440 times
אֲדֹנִֽי׃lord my
ʾadoniH113 →333 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Genesis
This page draws on 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.