Genesis 37:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

Genesis 37:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

Here is, I. The kind visit which Joseph, in obedience to his father’s command, made to his brethren, who were feeding the flock at Shechem, many miles off. Some suggest that they went thither on purpose, expecting that Joseph would be sent to see them, and that then they should have an opportunity to do him a mischief. However, Joseph and his father had both of them more of the innocence of the do…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

13-17. Israel said, ... Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?--Anxious to learn how his sons were doing in their distant encampment, Jacob despatched Joseph; and the youth, accepting the mission with alacrity, left the vale of Hebron, sought them at Shechem, heard of them from a man in “the field” (the wide and richly cultivated plain of Esdraelon), and found that they had left that neigh…