Genesis 45:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Genesis 45:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 20:3
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Ruth 1:9
The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Numbers 14:1
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Genesis 46:29
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Acts 20:37
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-15)

Judah and his brethren were waiting for an answer, and could not but be amazed to discover, instead of the gravity of a judge, the natural affection of a father or brother. I. Joseph ordered all his attendants to withdraw, Gen. 45:1. The private conversations of friends are the most free. When Joseph would put on love he puts off state, and it was not fit his servants should be witnesses of this.…

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

(vv. 2)

2. he wept aloud--No doubt, from the fulness of highly excited feelings; but to indulge in vehement and long-continued transports of sobbing is the usual way in which the Orientals express their grief.