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Genesis 47:18 KJV
Genesis · chapter 47 · verse 18
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:Genesis 47:18 · King James Version
Genesis 47:18 in context
16And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- secondshênîyproperly, doubleH8145 →
- cattlebᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beastH929 →
- endedtâmamto complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitiveH8552 →
- moneykeçephsilverH3701 →
- herdsmiqnehsomething boughtH4735 →
- yearshâneha yearH8141 →
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Care being taken of Jacob and his family, the preservation of which was especially designed by Providence in Joseph's advancement, an account is now given of the saving of the kingdom of Egypt too from ruin; for God is King of nations as well as King of saints, and provideth food for all flesh.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-26