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 went out, urged on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in Susa the capital. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on the LORD.

This is what an immoral woman is like: she eats, wipes her mouth, then says "I've done nothing wrong."

drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph's ruin

Ishmeelites

So Judah's brothers listened to him. As the Midianite merchants were passing through, they extracted Joseph from the cistern and sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who then took Joseph down to Egypt.

"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.

Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Keturah.

so he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob. Laban was on the road for seven days when he finally caught up with Jacob in the hill country of Gilead.

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

General references

But the officials of Succoth replied, "Do you have Zebah and Zalmunna in custody already, so that we should give food to your army?"