Genesis 45:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45:5 —

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Cross-References

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Genesis 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Acts 7:9-15
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, …
Genesis 45:7-8
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. …
Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Acts 2:23-24
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: …

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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.…