Psalms 105:17
15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
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
- He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
- KJV
- He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
- WEB
- He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
- ASV
- He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
- DARBY
- He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
- BLB
- He sent before them a man, [to] be sold as a slave—Joseph.
- ÅB
- Han sendte en mann foran dem, til slave ble Josef solgt.
- OTB
- Han sendte en mann foran dem,
Josef, som ble solgt som slave. - B1930
- Han sendte en mann foran dem, til træl blev Josef solgt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Read in contextGenesis 37:36
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.
Read in contextGenesis 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Read in contextGenesis 45:4–5
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Read in contextGenesis 39:1
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Read in contextGenesis 37:27–28
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
Read in contextGenesis 45:7–8
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Read in context