20And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: …
Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-23)Here is, 1. Joseph wronged by his master. He believed the accusation, and either Joseph durst not make his defence by telling the truth, as it would reflect too much upon his mistress, or his master would not hear it, or would not believe it, and there is no remedy, he is condemned to perpetual imprisonment, Gen. 39:19 , 20 . God restrained his wrath, else he had put him to death; and that wrath w…
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