Genesis 37:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Genesis 37:19 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 49:23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Genesis 37:11
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Genesis 37:5
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

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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. 19)

19. Behold, this dreamer cometh--literally, “master of dreams”--a bitterly ironical sneer. Dreams being considered suggestions from above, to make false pretensions to having received one was detested as a species of blasphemy, and in this light Joseph was regarded by his brethren as an artful pretender. They already began to form a plot for Joseph’s assassination, from which he was rescued only b…