The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:28
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive . And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:29
And he ( i.e. Joseph) lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said (without waiting for an answer), God be gracious unto thee, my son . The tenderness of this language was much fitted to encourage the brethren. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:30
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn (literally, were becom ing warm, from intensity of tore) upon his brother: and he sought where to weep;— the second occasion on which Joseph is represented as overcome by the strength of his inward emotion, the first having been when his brethren were speaking about their cruelty towards himself ( Genesis 42:24 )— and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:31
And he washed his face (an indication of the violence of his weeping), and went out (from his chamber), and refrained himself (keeping his tears in check), and said, Set on bread —an expression used at the present day in Egypt for bringing dinner. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:32
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves. "Joseph eats apart from his brethren, keeping strictly to the Egyptian mode; and the history does not omit to remark that in this point he adhered to the custom of the country" (Havernick, 21). Because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews. Herodotus (2.41) affirms that the Egyptians would neither use the knife, spit, or basin of a Grecian, nor taste... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:33
And they sat before him ,—that the Egyptians sat at meals is in exact accordance With the representations on the monuments, in which they are never exhibited as reposing on couches, but always as seated round a circular table resembling the monopodium of the Romans— the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled one at another —probably thinking that Joseph must have been supernaturally enlightened to discover so exactly the ages... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:34
And he took and sent (literally, and he sent ) messes — maseoth , from nasa , to take or lift up, i.e. things taken or lifted up, hence portions or gifts ( 2 Samuel 11:8 )— unto them from before him (cf. 1 Samuel 9:23 ). The practice of thus honoring guests was also observed among other nations ( vide 'Iliad,' 7:321). But Benjamin's mess (or portion) was five times so much as any of theirs —literally, exceeded the portions of all of them five hands, i.e. five... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 43:1-34
- Joseph and His Eleven Brethren11. דבשׁ debash, “honey,” from the bee, or sirup from the juice of the grape. בטנים bôṭen, “pistachio nuts.” שׁקד shâqêd, “almond tree;” related: “awake.” The tree is also called לוּז lûz. Some refer the former to the fruit, the latter to the tree.The eleven brothers are now to bow down before Joseph.Genesis 43:1-10The famine was severe. The pressure began to be felt more and more. The twelve households had at length consumed all the corn they had purchased,... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 43:28
Genesis 43:28. When they brought him the present, they bowed themselves before him, and again, when they gave him an account of their father’s health, they made obeisance, and called him, Thy servant, our father Thus were Joseph’s dreams fulfilled more and more; and even the father, by the sons, bowed before him. Probably Jacob had directed them, if they had occasion to speak of him to the man, the lord of the land, to call him his servant. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 43:27
And he asked them of their welfare (literally, peace), and said, Is your father well (literally, Is there peace to your father ?), the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? read more