Genesis 42:19

New International Version

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

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

Genesis 41:56

When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all the sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Genesis 42:20

But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.

Genesis 42:26

they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

Genesis 42:33

“Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.

Genesis 45:23

And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”

Isaiah 42:7

to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

Jeremiah 37:15

They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.