30The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-38)Here is, 1. The report which Jacob’s sons made to their father of the great distress they had been in in Egypt; how they had been suspected, and threatened, and obliged to leave Simeon a prisoner there, till they should bring Benjamin with them thither. Who would have thought of this when they left home? When we go abroad we should consider how many sad accidents, that we little think of, may befa…
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