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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 44:6 - 44:6
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he overtook them, and he spake ... these words - The steward’s words must have come upon them like a thunderbolt, and one of their most predominant feelings must have been the humiliating and galling sense of being made so often objects of suspicion. Protesting their innocence, they invited a search. The challenge was accepted [Gen 44:10, Gen 44:11]. Beginning with the eldest, every sack was examined, and the cup being found in Benjamin’s [Gen 44:12], they all returned in an indescribable agony of mind to the house of the governor [Gen 44:13], throwing themselves at his feet [Gen 44:14], with the remarkable confession, “God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants” [Gen 44:16].