Genesis 43:8-14 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 43:1-10

Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen. 43:1, 2. The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good master of a family, is in care to provide for those of his own house food convenient; and shall not God provide for his children, for the household of faith? Jacob bids them go again and buy a little food; now, in time of scarcity, a little must suffice, for nature is content with a little. 2. Judah urges... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 43:11-14

Observe here, I. Jacob's persuasibleness. He would be ruled by reason, though they were his inferiors that urged it. He saw the necessity of the case; and, since there was no remedy, he consented to yield to the necessity (Gen. 43:11): ?If it must be so now, take your brother. If no corn can be had but upon those terms, we may as well expose him to the perils of the journey as suffer ourselves and families, and Benjamin amongst the rest, to perish for want of bread.? Skin for skin, and all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:8

And Judah said unto Israel his father, send the lad with me , and we will arise and go ,.... Directly to Egypt for corn; Judah calls Benjamin a lad, because the youngest brother, and tenderly brought up by his father, who had an affectionate fondness for him as if he had been a child; otherwise he must be thirty two years of age, for he was seven years younger than Joseph, who was now thirty nine years of age; yea, Benjamin must have children of his own, who went with him and his father... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him ,.... Engage for his safe return: of my hand shall thou require him ; I will be answerable for him: if I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee : do not return him from Egypt, and bring him to Canaan, into his father's house and presence safe, and sound: then let me bear the blame for ever ; of persuading his father to let him go with him; all this he said, to show what care he would take of him, and what confidence he had that no evil would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:10

For except we had lingered ,.... Delayed going down to Egypt, through the demur Jacob made of tending Benjamin with them: surely now we had returned this second time ; they would have made their journey to Egypt, and returned again with their corn, and their brother Benjamin too, as Judah supposed, before this time; so that by these delays they were losing time, and involving themselves and families in distress for want of corn. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:11

And their father said unto them ,.... Being in some measure convinced by their reasonings, and in part at least reconciled to let Benjamin go with them, there being nothing to be done, he perceived, unless he consented to it: if it must be so now, do this ; if nothing else will do but Benjamin must go, which after all he was reluctant to, then he advises them to do as follows: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels ; such as were the peculiar produce of the land of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:12

And take double money in your hand ,.... Than what they carried before, either to buy as much more as they then did; or rather because of the greater scarcity of corn, as Jarchi observes, which made it doubly dearer; for this seems to be different from the money they are also bid to take in return for that found in their sacks, which was a third parcel, as follows: and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand ; that it might be ready to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:13

Take also your brother ,.... Their brother Benjamin, committing him into their hands and to their care, hereby declaring his consent and willingness that he should go with them: and arise, go again to the man ; the governor of Egypt, to buy corn of him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:14

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man ,.... Who has the hearts of all men in his hands, kings, princes, governors, even those who are the most cruel and hardhearted, rough and severe in their tempers and dispositions, and such an one they had represented this man to be; one that had spoke roughly to them, and used them roughly: Jacob therefore sent him a present to soften his mind, and now he puts up a prayer to God, and dismisses his sons with his good wishes for them, that God... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 43:8

Send the lad with me - As the original is not ילד yeled , from which we have derived our word lad, but נער naar , it would have been better had our translators rendered it by some other term, such as the youth, or the young man, and thus the distinction in the Hebrew would have been better kept up. Benjamin was at this time at least twenty-four years of age, some think thirty, and had a family of his own. See Genesis 46:21 . That we may live, and not die - An argument drawn... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 43:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 43:11-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 43:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 43:8

Grupo de Marcas