Genesis 37:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

They sat

Ishmeelites

General references

Judges 8:6

Bible References

They sat

The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

Ishmeelites

And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

General references

But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?