17And he put them all together into ward three days.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
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 th…
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