Genesis 42:19

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 41:56

When the famine was over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians; for the famine grew extremely distressing in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man's sons; we are true men; your servants are not spies.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live! I reverence and fear God.

Genesis 42:20

But bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you shall live. And they did so.

Genesis 42:26

They loaded their donkeys with grain and left.

Genesis 42:33

And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this test I will know whether or not you are honest men: leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your famishing households and be gone.

Genesis 45:23

And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain, bread, and nourishing food and provision for his father [to supply all who were with him] on the way.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes and hidden in houses of bondage. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver them, a spoil, with no one to say, Restore them! [This shows the condition that will ensue as Israel's punishment for not recognizing the Servant of the Lord and the day of His visit among them.] [Luke19:41-44.]

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness from the prison. [Matt. 12:18-21.]

Jeremiah 37:15

Therefore the princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe–for they had made that the prison.