Genesis 45:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Be not grieved

Isaiah 40:1

Luke 23:34

2 Corinthians 2:7

God

General references

Acts 7:11

Philemon 1:15

Bible References

Be not grieved

“Comfort, comfort My people,”
says your God.

[Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.”] And they divided His clothes and cast lots.

As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, this one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.

God

God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

And they said, “You have saved our lives. We have found favor in our lord’s eyes and will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”

The king replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? He curses me this way because the Lord

told him, ‘Curse David!’ Therefore, who can say, ‘Why did you do that?’”

Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”

saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will leave this life.

The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Praise the name of Yahweh.

He called down famine against the land
and destroyed the entire food supply.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him

General references

Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,