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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 105:17

He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joseph;   Predestination;   Thankfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Genesis, Theology of;   Mission;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joseph;   Potiphar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confessions and Credos;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Joseph;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ham (1);   Jacob (1);   Mizraim;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Then he sent someone to Egypt ahead of them— Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
English Revised Version
He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
Update Bible Version
He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave:
New Century Version
Then he sent a man ahead of them— Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
New English Translation
He sent a man ahead of them— Joseph was sold as a servant.
Webster's Bible Translation
He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:
World English Bible
He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
Amplified Bible
He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
English Standard Version
he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He sente a man bifore hem; Joseph was seeld in to a seruaunt.
Berean Standard Bible
He sent a man before them-Joseph, sold as a slave.
Contemporary English Version
But he had already sent Joseph, sold as a slave into Egypt,
American Standard Version
He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
Bible in Basic English
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:
Complete Jewish Bible
but sent a man ahead of them — Yosef, who was sold as a slave.
Darby Translation
He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
Easy-to-Read Version
But he sent a man named Joseph to go ahead of them. Joseph was sold like a slave.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant;
King James Version (1611)
Hee sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was sold for a seruant.
New Life Bible
He sent a man, Joseph, before them who was sold as a servant.
New Revised Standard
he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.
George Lamsa Translation
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant,
Good News Translation
But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He sent before them a man, For a slave, was he sold - even Joseph;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-17) He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
Revised Standard Version
he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.
Christian Standard Bible®
He had sent a man ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Hebrew Names Version
He sent a man before them. Yosef was sold for a slave.
King James Version
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Lexham English Bible
He sent a man on ahead of them; Joseph was sold as a slave.
Literal Translation
He sent a man before them, Joseph, being sold for a slave;
Young's Literal Translation
He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he had sent a man before them, euen Ioseph which was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.
New American Standard Bible
He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
New King James Version
He sent a man before them-- Joseph--who was sold as a slave.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Legacy Standard Bible
He sent a man before them,Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

Contextual Overview

8 He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: 9 which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac. 10 And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; 11 saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: 12 when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. 13 And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. 14 He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes: 15 saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm. 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread. 17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He sent: Genesis 45:5, Genesis 45:7, Genesis 45:8, Genesis 50:20

Joseph: Genesis 37:27, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 37:36, Genesis 39:1, Genesis 45:4, Acts 7:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:52 - the land Genesis 41:57 - all countries Genesis 49:26 - was separate Psalms 146:7 - looseth Acts 5:19 - General Hebrews 11:36 - bonds

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He sent a man before them, even Joseph,.... Who, though but a lad of seventeen years of age when he was sold into Egypt, yet was a grown man when he stood before Pharaoh, and interpreted his dreams of plenty and famine to come; and advised him to lay up store in the years of plenty, against the years of famine; by which he appeared to be a wise man, as the Targum here calls him; see Genesis 37:3. Him God sent before into Egypt; before Jacob and his sons went down thither, to make provision for them, to support them in the time of famine, and preserve their lives. God is said to send him, though his brethren sold him out of envy; there being such a plain hand of Providence in this matter; and which is observed by Joseph himself over and over again,

Genesis 45:5, in which he was a type of Christ, in whom all provisions are made, and by whom they are communicated unto his people; who all receive out of his fulness, and grace for grace.

Who was sold for a servant: either "to a servant": as to Potiphar, as Aben Ezra, who was a servant of Pharaoh's; or rather to be a servant, as Joseph was in his house: he was sold for twenty pieces of silver, as Christ, his antitype, for thirty; the price of a servant,

Genesis 37:28, and who not only appeared in the form of a servant, but did the work of one: and a faithful and righteous servant he was to his Father, and on the behalf of his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sent a man before them - That is, He so ordered it by his providence that a man - Joseph - was sent before the family of Jacob into Egypt, that he might make arrangements for their reception and preservation. The whole matter was as God had sent him, or had commanded him to go. And yet it was brought about as the result of a series of acts of the most wicked character; by the envy and the hatred of his brethren; by their guilt and hardness of heart in proposing at first to put him to death, and then in their arrangements for selling him to hopeless slavery; by their plan so to dispose of him that their father might never hear of him again, and that they might be troubled with him no more. God did not cause these acts. He did not command them; he did not approve of them. And yet, since they did occur, and since Joseph’s brethren were so wicked, God made use of these things to accomplish his own benevolent purposes, and to carry out his great designs. So he makes use of the passions of wicked people at all times to execute his plans (compare the notes at Isaiah 10:5-7; see also Psalms 76:10; and Genesis 50:20); and so he will do to the end of time. People are free in their wickedness; but God is equally free in frustrating their schemes, and overruling their designs for the accomplishment of his own purposes.

Who was sold for a servant - For a slave; Genesis 37:28, Genesis 37:36; Genesis 39:1.


 
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