Genesis 37:5-9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 37:5-11

Here, I. Joseph relates the prophetical dreams he had, Gen. 37:6, 7, 9, 10. Though he was now very young (about seventeen years old), yet he was pious and devout, and well-inclined, and this fitted him for God's gracious discoveries of himself to him. Joseph had a great deal of trouble before him, and therefore God gave him betimes this prospect of his advancement, to support and comfort him under the long and grievous troubles with which he was to be exercised. Thus Christ had a joy set... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:5

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren ,.... As a dream, in the simplicity of his heart; not understanding it, or imagining there was any meaning in it; he told it not with any design to affront them, but as an amusement, and for their diversion, there being something in it odd and ridiculous, as he himself might think: and they hated him yet the more ; not only because he had carried an ill report of them to his father, and because he loved him more than they, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:6

And he said unto them, hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed. Hear now, so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, immediately, directly, lest he should forget it, having perhaps dreamt it the night before; though our version expresses more modesty and submission. The dream follows: read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:7

For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field ,.... So it was represented in his mind in a dream, as if it was harvest time, and he and his brethren were at work together in the field binding up sheaves of corn that were reaped, in order to be carried home: and, lo, my sheaf arose, and stood upright ; it seemed to him, that after he had bound and laid it on the ground, that it rose up of itself, and stood erect: and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:8

And his brethren said unto him ,.... After he had told his dream, being highly offended with him, understanding the dream, and the meaning of it, better than he did: shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shall thou indeed have dominion over us ? denying that he ever should, and reproving him for his vanity, in concluding from hence that he would have the dominion over them. So the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, dost thou think, suppose, or imagine that thou shall rule over us? it looks... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:9

And he dreamed yet another dream ,.... Relating to the name subject as the former, and, for the confirmation of it, only the emblems are different, and more comprehensive: and told it his brethren, and said, behold, I have dreamed a dream more ; another dream, and which he told, either as not knowing fully the resentment of his brethren at his former dream, or in order to clear himself from any charge of feigning the dream, or having any ill intention in telling it; seeing he had another... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:7

We were binding sheaves in the field - Though in these early times we read little of tillage, yet it is evident from this circumstance that it was practiced by Jacob and his sons. The whole of this dream is so very plain as to require no comment, unless we could suppose that the sheaves of grain might have some reference to the plenty in Egypt under Joseph's superintendence, and the scarcity in Canaan, which obliged the brethren to go down to Egypt for corn, where the dream was most... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:9

He dreamed yet another dream - This is as clear as the preceding. But how could Jacob say, Shall I and thy mother, etc., when Rachel his mother was dead some time before this? Perhaps Jacob might hint, by this explanation, the impossibility of such a dream being fulfilled, because one of the persons who should be a chief actor in it was already dead. But any one wife or concubine of Jacob was quite sufficient to fulfill this part of the dream. It is possible, some think, that Joseph may have... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:6

Verse 6 6.And Joseph dreamed a dream. Moses having stated what were the first seeds of this enmity, now ascends higher, and shows that Joseph had been elected, by the wonderful purpose of God, to great things; that this had been declared to him in a dream; and that, therefore, the hatred of his brethren broke forth into madness. God, however, revealed in dreams what he would do, that afterwards it might be known that nothing had happened fortuitously: but that what had been fixed by a celestial... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:8

Verse 8 8.Shalt thou indeed reign over us? Here it is plainly shown to us that the paternal favor of God towards the elect, is like a fan to excite against them the enmity of the world. When the sons of Jacob heard that they were fighting in vain against God, their unjust hatred ought, by such means, to have been corrected. For it was as if God, setting himself in the midst, would repress their fury by these words, “Your impious conspiring will be fruitless; for although you boast, I have... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 37:5-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 37:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 37:8

Group of Brands