Genesis 42:19

New King James Version

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house; but you, go and carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Cross References

Jeremiah 37:15

Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”

Isaiah 42:7

To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

Genesis 45:23

And he sent to his father these things: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for his father for the journey.

Genesis 42:26

So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from there.

Genesis 41:56

The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 40:3

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

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men; your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42:18

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

Genesis 42:20

And bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.

Genesis 42:33

Then the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, take food for the famine of your households, and be gone.