Genesis 50:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But 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.

Genesis 50:20 —

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Cross-References

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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Genesis 45:5-8
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. …
Genesis 37:18-20
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. …
Acts 2:23
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. 15-21)

We have here the settling of a good correspondence between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country; yet the keeping up of a good understanding, and a good affection, between them, would be both his honour and their interest. Note, When Providence has removed the parents by death, the best me…

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

(vv. 20)

15-21. When Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, &c.--Joseph was deeply affected by this communication. He gave them the strongest assurances of his forgiveness and thereby gave both a beautiful trait of his own pious character, as well as appeared an eminent type of the Saviour.