Genesis 39:20
18 but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
21 the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
22 And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- KJV
- And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
- WEB
- Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- ASV
- And Joseph`s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king`s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
- DARBY
- And Joseph's lord took him and put him into the tower-house, [the] place where the king's prisoners were confined; and he was there in the tower-house.
- BLB
- And the lord of Joseph took him and put him into the prison house, a place where the prisoners of the king [were] confined. And he was there in the prison. House
- ÅB
- Og Josefs herre tok og satte ham i fengslet, der hvor kongens fanger holdtes fengslet; og han ble sittende der i fengslet.
- OTB
- Josefs herre tok ham og satte ham i fengselet hvor kongens fanger ble holdt. Og han ble der i fengselet.
- B1930
- Og Josefs herre tok og satte ham i fengslet, der hvor kongens fanger holdtes fengslet; og han blev sittende der i fengslet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 40:15
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
Read in context1 Peter 2:19
For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.
Read in contextGenesis 41:9–14
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
Read in contextGenesis 40:1–3
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
Read in contextPsalms 105:18–19
They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
Read in contextDaniel 3:21–22
So they were tied up, wearing robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and they were thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
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