23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-27)He closes with the blessings of his best beloved sons, Joseph and Benjamin; with these he will breathe his last. I. The blessing of Joseph, which is very large and full. He is compared (Gen. 49:22) to a fruitful bough , or young tree; for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction; he owned it, Gen. 41:52. His two sons were as branches of a vine, or other spreading plant, running over…
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