Genesis 42:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

Genesis 42:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Genesis 42:9-11
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. …
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Matthew 15:21-28
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. …

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Dissembling

Commentary

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

(vv. 7-20)

We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, it is strange that he who so often went throughout all the land of Egypt (Gen. 41:45, 46) never made an excursion to Canaan, to visit his aged father, when he was in the b…

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

(vv. 14)

9-14. Ye are spies--This is a suspicion entertained regarding strangers in all Eastern countries down to the present day. Joseph, however, who was well aware that his brethren were not spies, has been charged with cruel dissimulation, with a deliberate violation of what he knew to be the truth, in imputing to them such a character. But it must be remembered that he was sustaining the part of a rul…