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

Psalm 83:6

General references

Judges 8:6

Bible References

They sat

The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

They drink wine by the bowlful
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Ishmeelites

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

Then the Angel of the Lord said to her:

You have conceived and will have a son.
You will name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.

Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,

General references

But the princes of Succoth asked, “Are Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hands that we should give bread to your army?”