Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 42:19

Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 42:19 - 42:20

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Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 42:19 - 42:20

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

42:1 - 42:2
42:3 - 42:20
42:8 - 42:8
42:11 - 42:17
42:18 - 42:18
42:19 - 42:20
42:21 - 42:22
42:22 - 42:22
42:24 - 42:24
42:25 - 42:28
42:29 - 42:35
42:36 - 42:36
42:37 - 42:37
42:38 - 42:38

Gen_42:19-20

Let one of your brethren be bound

Lessons

1.

To prove truth among national parties, it is not unequal to give hostages.

2. Hostages being taken it is but equal that parties have liberty to manifest truth.

3. Nature will not, much less grace, dispatch hungry men without food.

4. Bread-corn is the break-neck of hunger (Gen_42:19).

5. Reasonable testimonies of truth may be peremptorily demanded of suspected persons.

6. Justification and security are to be afforded to men of truth.

7. It is reasonable for men under trials to yield to just terms for deliverance (Gen_42:20). (G. Hughes, B. D.)