Genesis 40:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Genesis 40:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 39:20
And 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.
Genesis 39:23
The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-4)

We should not have had this story of Pharaoh’s butler and baker recorded in scripture if it had not been serviceable to Joseph’s preferment. The world stands for the sake of the church, and is governed for its good. Observe, 1. Two of the great officers of Pharaoh’s court, having offended the king, are committed to prison. Note, High places are slippery places; nothing more uncertain than the favo…

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

(vv. 3)

3. Pharaoh put them in ward, &c.--Whatever was their crime, they were committed, until their case could be investigated, to the custody of the captain of the guard, that is, Potiphar, in an outer part of whose house the royal prison was situated.