Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

are the blessings of the place where they live; good servants may be so, though mean and lightly esteemed. The prosperity of the ...

but the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy. Those that have a good conscience in a prison, have a good God there. God ga ...

his hands, yet he forgot him. We must not think it strange, if in this world we have hatred shown us for our love, and slights f ...

that gathers much, has nothing over; and he that gathers little, has no lack, Ex 16:18. And see the perishing nature of our worl ...

Their remorse, Simeon detained. (21–24) The rest return with corn. (25–28) Jacob refuses to send Benjamin to Egypt. (29–38) Vers ...

Verses 29–38 Here is the report Jacob's sons made to their father. It troubled the good man. Even the bundles of money Joseph re ...

and honey, &c. Providence dispenses not its gifts to all alike. But honey and spice will never make up the want of bread-cor ...

Verses 1–17 Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had h ...

Verses 1–15 Joseph let Judah go on, and heard all he had to say. He found his brethren humbled for their sins, mindful of himsel ...

Verses 25–28 To hear that Joseph is alive, is too good news to be true; Jacob faints, for he believes it not. We faint, because ...

It was justice to Pharaoh to let him know that such a family was come to settle in his dominions. If others put confidence in us ...

With the gravity of old age, the piety of a true believer, and the authority of a patriarch and a prophet, Jacob besought the Lo ...

At last the time drew nigh that Israel must die. Israel, a prince with God, had power over the Angel, and prevailed, yet must di ...

The two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph says, They are my sons whom God has given me. Jacob says, God hath showed me ...

Verses 3–7 Reuben was the first-born; but by gross sin, he forfeited the birthright. The character of Reuben is, that he was uns ...

whom the gathering of the people shall be. He declared plainly that he sought heaven, the better country, Heb 11:13, 14. Now he ...

charge, and so had finished his testimony, he addressed himself to his dying work. He gathered up his feet into the bed, not onl ...

Various motives might cause the sons of Jacob to continue in Egypt, notwithstanding the prophetic vision Abraham had of their bo ...

Exodus The Book of Exodus relates the forming of the children of Israel into a church and a nation. We have hitherto seen true r ...

but so that their lives became bitter. The Israelites wonderfully increased. Christianity spread most when it was persecuted: th ...