Genesis 37:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Genesis 37:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 23:12
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
1 Samuel 19:1
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Mark 14:1
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

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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. 18)

18. when they saw him afar off--on the level grass field, where they were watching their cattle. They could perceive him approaching in the distance from the side of Shechem, or rather, Samaria.