22And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. …
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)Here is, I. The penitent reflection Joseph’s brethren made upon the wrong they had formerly done to him, Gen. 42:21. They talked the matter over in the Hebrew tongue, not suspecting that Joseph, whom they took for a native of Egypt, understood them, much less that he was the person they spoke of. 1. They remembered with regret the barbarous cruelty wherewith they persecuted him: We are verily guil…
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