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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:22

And I saw in my dream ,.... Falling asleep again quickly, he dreamed a second time; and this dream being of a like kind with the former, and so small a space between them, they are represented as one, and this is the continuation of it: and, behold, seven ears , &c.; See Gill on Genesis 41:5 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:23

And, behold, seven ears withered ,.... Here a new epithet of the bad ears is given, and expressed by a word nowhere else used, which Ben Melech interprets, small, little, according to the use of the word in the Misnah; Aben Ezra, void, empty, such as had no grains of corn in them, nothing but husk or chaff, and observes that some render it images; for the word is so used in the Arabic language, and may signify that these ears were only mere shadows or images of ears, which had no substance... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears ,.... See Gill on Genesis 41:7 , and I told this unto the magicians ; just in the same manner as he had to Joseph: but there was none that could declare it unto me ; the meaning of it; what all this should signify or portend. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:25

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, the dream of Pharaoh is one ,.... Though there were two distinct dreams expressed under different images and representations, yet the meaning, sense, and signification of them were the same; one interpretation would do for both: God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do ; that is, by the above dreams, when they should be interpreted to him; for as yet he understood them not, and therefore there could be nothing showed him, but when interpreted it... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:26

The seven good kine are seven years ,.... Signify seven years, and these years of plenty, as appears from the antithesis in Genesis 41:26 , and the seven good ears are seven years ; signify the same: the dream is one ; for though the seven good kine were seen in one dream, the seven good ears in another, yet both dreams were one as to signification. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:27

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years ,.... Signify other seven years, and these different from the former, as follows: and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine : or there will be seven years of famine that will answer to them, and are signified by them: Grotius, from the Oneirocritics or interpreters of dreams, observes, that years are signified by kine, and particularly he relates from Achmes, that... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:28

This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh ,.... As an interpretation of his dreams: what God is about to do, he sheweth unto Pharaoh : the events of fourteen years with respect to plenty and sterility. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:29

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. Not only a sufficiency but an abundance, even to luxury, as when the Nile rose to sixteen cubits, as Pliny observes F13 Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 9. ; which, though a natural cause, was owing to God, and that it should thus overflow for seven years successively, and cause such a continued plenty, can be ascribed to no other. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:30

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine ,.... Which might be occasioned by the river Nile not rising so high as to overflow its banks, as, when it did not rise to more than twelve cubits, a famine ensued, as the above writer says F14 Nat Hist. l. 5. c. 9. ; and it must be owing to the overruling providence of God that this should be the case for seven years running: and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt ; the seven years of plenty being all... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:31

And the plenty shall not be known in the land, by reason of that famine following ,.... That is, before it would be over; otherwise the former plenty was in some measure known by the stores of provisions laid up in the seven years of it, and which were brought forth when the famine became very pressing; but by that time, and before the seven years of it were ended, there were no traces of the foregoing plenty to be observed: for it shall be very grievous ; as it was both in Egypt and... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:31

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