Genesis 40:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Genesis 40:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 40:19
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Daniel 5:12
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Daniel 2:19-23
Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 20-23)

Here is, 1. The verifying of Joseph’s interpretation of the dreams, on the very day prefixed. The chief butler and baker were both advanced, one to his office, the other to the gallows, and both at the three days’ end. Note, Very great changes, both for the better and for the worse, often happen in a very little time, so sudden are the revolutions of the wheel of nature. The occasion of giving jud…

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

(vv. 22)

20-22. it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday--This was a holiday season, celebrated at court with great magnificence and honored by a free pardon to prisoners. Accordingly, the issue happened to the butler and baker, as Joseph had foretold. Doubtless, he felt it painful to communicate such dismal tidings to the baker; but he could not help announcing what God had revealed to…