Genesis 42:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

House

Genesis 40:3

Isaiah 42:7

Jeremiah 37:15

Carry corn

General references

Genesis 42:33

Genesis 44:23

Bible References

House

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison.

Carry corn

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

When the famine was spread over all the face of the earth, then Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Now the famine was severe in the land.

To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and sustenance for his father on the journey.

General references

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.

You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’