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:
Carry corn
General references
Bible References
House
Genesis 40:3
And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Jeremiah 37:15
Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Carry corn
Genesis 42:1
Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do you look one upon another?
Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 43:1
And the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten donkeys laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain and bread and food for his father by the way.
General references
Genesis 42:33
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis 44:23
And you said unto your servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my face no more.