Genesis 41:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Genesis 41:34 —

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Cross-References

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2 Kings 11:11-12
And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. …
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Job 5:20
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Nehemiah 11:9
And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 33-45)

Here is, I. The good advice that Joseph gave to Pharaoh, which was, 1. That in the years of plenty he should lay up for the years of famine, buy up corn when it was cheap, that he might both enrich himself and supply the country when it would be dear and scarce. Note, Fair warning should always be followed with good counsel. Therefore the prudent man foresees the evil, that he may hide himself. Go…

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

(vv. 34)

34. and let him appoint officers over the land--overseers, equivalent to the beys of modern Egypt. take up the fifth part of the land--that is, of the land’s produce, to be purchased and stored by the government, instead of being sold to foreign corn merchants.