Genesis 41

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:40

Joseph as prime minister. "Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou." Sudden elevations are often the precursors of sudden falls. It was not so with Joseph. He filled satisfactorily his position, retaining it to the end of life. He made himself indispensable to Pharaoh and to the country. He was a man of decision. Seeing what had to be done, he hesitated not in commencing it. Going from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:41-43

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph. See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt . This was the royal edict constituting Joseph grand vizier or prime minister of the empire: the formal installation in office followed. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand ,—the use of a signet-ring by the monarch, which Bohlen admits to be in accordance with the accounts of classic authors, has recently received a remarkable illustration by the discovery at Koujunjik, the site of the ancient Nineveh, of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:44

And Pharaoh-said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt . Joseph's authority was to be absolute and universal. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah ;—an Egyptian word, of which the most accredited interpretations are χονθομφανήχ ( LXX ); Salvator Mundi (Vulgate); "the Salvation of the World," answering to the Coptic P -sote-m-ph-eneh— P the article, sots salvation, m the sign of the genitive, ph the article, and eneh the world (Furst, Jablonsky, Rosellini, and others); "the Rescuer of the World" (Gesenius); "the Prince of the Life of the World" (Brugsch); "the Food... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:46

And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt —literally, a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh . If, therefore, he had been three years in prison ( Genesis 40:4 ; Genesis 41:1 ), he must have served for ten years in the house of Potiphar. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh (in the performance of his official duties), and went throughout all the land of Egypt —super-intending the district overseers. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:46-57

Joseph on the second throne in Egypt. I. DURING THE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY . 1. His mature manhood ( Genesis 41:46 ). Thirteen years had elapsed since his brethren had sold him at Dothan, and during the interval what a checkered life had be experienced! Carried into Egypt by the spice caravan of the Midianitish traders, he had been sold a second time as a slave. Ten years had he served as a bondman, first as a valet to the provost marshal of the slaughterers, and then as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:47-48

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls ( i.e. abundantly). And he (Joseph, through his subordinates) gathered up all the food ( i.e. all the portions levied) of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities :—men bringing corn into granaries appear upon the monuments at Beni-hassan— the food of the field, which was round about every city (literally, the food of the field of the city, which was in its environs ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:49

And Joseph gathered (or heaped up) corn as the sand of the sea ,—an image of great abundance (cf. Genesis 32:12 )— very much, until he left numbering ( i.e. writing, or keeping a record of the number of bushels); for it was without number . "In a tomb at Eilethya a man is represented whose business it evidently was to take account of the number of bushels. Which another man, acting under him, measures. The inscription is as follows "The writer or registrar of bushels—Thutnofre,". read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:50-51

And unto Joseph wore born two sons before the years of famine came, (literally, before the coming of the gears of famine ) , which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. And Joseph called, the name of the firstborn Manasseh ("Forgetting," from nashah, to forget): For God (Elohim; Joseph not at the moment thinking of his son's birth in its relations to the theocratic kingdom, but simply in its connection with the overruling providence of God which had been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:52

And the name of the second called he Ephraim :—"Double Fruitfulness" (Keil), "Double Land" (Gesenius), "Fruit." (Furst)— For God ( Elohim) hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. This language shows that Joseph had not quite forgotten " all his toil." read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:40

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:41-43

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:44

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:45

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:46

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:46-57

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:47-48

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:49

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:50-51

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 41:52

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