Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams. Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile. Gen 41:1
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAME10NT
II. GOD AND THE CHOSEN FAMILY, Genesis 12-50
3. The History of Jacob’s Sons, Joseph and His Brothers
(2) Joseph’s Servitude in Egypt, Genesis 39-41
72. What finally opened the prison-doors for him?
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH’S DREAMS
Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile.
And lo, there came up out of the Nile seven [healthy] cows, sleek and handsome and fat; and they grazed in the reed grass [in a marshy pasture].
Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, ugly and gaunt and raw-boned, and stood by the fat cows on the bank of the Nile.
Then the ugly and gaunt and raw-boned cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.
Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.
Then behold, seven ears [of grain], thin and dried up by the east wind, sprouted after them.
Then the thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
So when morning came his spirit was troubled and disturbed and he sent and called for all the magicians and all the wise men of Egypt. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them to him.
Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I would mention my faults today.
[Two years ago] Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.
We dreamed a dream on the same night, he and I; each of us dreamed according to [the significance of] the interpretation of his own dream.
Now there was with us [in the prison] a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us, to each man according to the significance of his own dream.
And just as he interpreted [the dreams] for us, so it happened; I was restored to my office [as chief cupbearer], and the baker was hanged.”
PHARAOH DREAMS OF CATTLE AND OF EARS OF GRAIN
This chapter tells of ascension and exaltation,… and affords an inimitable type of the issue of our Lord’s humiliation and death. Like Joseph, He went and preached to spirits in prison, and then God highly exalted Him, and gave him a Name above every name. Rejected by his brethren, refused by those to whom he was sent, falsely accused and condemned, classed with the wicked, thrust into prison, rescuing one of his poor associates, called to a throne, it would be possible in almost every particular to substitute the name of Jesus for that of Joseph. What a corroboration of those great words of Asaph, “Neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south cometh lifting up; but God is the judge,” Psa_75:6-7. When sorrow falls, how quickly the world remembers the child of God, and turns to him! Those that despise and forget will seek you out some day.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Genesis 41:1-13
II. THE PATRIARCHS OF ISRAEL (Chaps. 12-50)
D. Joseph (37:1–50:26)
Genesis 40:1-23
5. Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh’s Dreams (Chap. 41)
41:1-13 When none of the magicians of Egypt could interpret Pharaoh’s dreams of the seven fat and seven ugly and gaunt cows, of the seven plump and good ears and seven thin heads of grain, then the chief butler remembered Joseph and his ability to interpret dreams. The two full years mentioned in verse 1 may refer either to the time of Joseph’s imprisonment or the time since the chief butler’s release.
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