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23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Genesis 40:23

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

  • Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

  • That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

  • Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. …

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…

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