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 quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered.

All who do evil--do they not know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.

This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."

[Alas for those] who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

Ishmeelites

Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and brought [him] up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty [pieces of] silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.

And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.

Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.

Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

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

General references

The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?"