23 Yetdid-notithe chief butler remember Joſeph, but forgat him 5. |
s (7.e. ) NegleQed him and his defire ; as men 1 Scripture are oft ſaid to forget God, when they donor remember him fo as to love and obey him, as Pſal; 106. 13,21. Hoſ: 2. 13.
C H A Þ. XLL | Pharaoh's two dreams, 1 7. Hes troubled ; ſends for interpreters ; their. inability, 8, The chief Butler ſenſible of his Fault, remembers Joſeph, g. Commends him to Pharaoh, 10 —=— 13. Who cauſes him zo be brough: before hm, 14. Expetting the Interpretation from him, Joſeph ajcribes all to God, 16. Pharaoh relates his dreams to Jo-
ſhew that 1t
15.
ſeph, 17 24. He interprets them, 25----;1. The reaſon of theif being doubled,,2. His advice to Pharaoh againſt tle dearth to come, 33----==36. Which he- approves of, 37. Appornts him governour, next himſelf, over the whale tans, 38 The enſigns of dignity, and
ſtately preſents conferred on him, 42 -_ Alſo a new name Zaph- nah Paaneah, and a wife, 45: Joſeph no:o thirty years of age, makes a progreſs over all the land, inſpefts the ſtores,lays up Proviſions, 45 = 49. Has two Children Manaſſeb and Ephraim, 50 -—— 52. Bad years
come 0n ; He ſupplies the Countrey, 53 <——_57. -
A ND it came to paſs at the end of two Þ full years 2, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he ſtood by the river 6. a After the Butler's reſtitution' to his place. | Heb: Years of days, for full years, as 2 Sam. 14. 28. Jer: 28. 3.: as # month of days 1s put for a full month, Ger 29: .4 which is comp'eat to a day
are called the Poer > And hciiold, there came up out of the river e,
ſeven weli-favoured kine d, and fat-fleſhed, and they fed in a Meadow
c This ſuits well with the nature ofthe thing. for both the fruit .
fulneſs and the barcenneſs of Ezypr depended, under God,upon the increaſe, or diminution of the Waters of that River. 4d Which when they appeared in dreams did portend, in the Opinion of the learned Ezyprians, the ycars or times to come,and them either good or bad according to thelr quality. > And behoid, {even other kine c2me up after them our of the :iver, ill-favoured, and lean-fleſhed,and ſtood by the other kine upon the brink of the river e. e Which ſhews how ſparingly the River cver-flowed the Lands. 4 And che ill-favoured and lean-flelhed kine, did eatup the ſeven well-favoured and fat kine. So Pha- raoh awoke And he ſlept, and dreamed the fecondtime: and beho'd, ſeven ears of corn f came up upon one italk, + rank and gond,
f Which are fir and proper reſemblances of the thing here inten- ded, both becauſe the fertility of a Land doth mainly confiſt in the abundence and goodneſs of theſe; and becauſe ears of Corn ap- pearing to any in a Dream, did, in the judgmens of the Egyptian wiſe-men, ſignify years, as foſephus notes. |
6 And benoid, ſeven thin ears and blaited with the eaſt-windg, ſprang up after them,
| & Abaiſterous Wind, and in thoſ= parts of the World very per- nicious to the Fruits of the Earth, Exzek: 17. 10. and 19. 12. Hoſ: T3. 15. ;
7 And the ſeven thin ears devoured the ſeven rank and fullears: and Pharaoh awoke, and behold it was a dream h.
. hk Nor a real thing, as Pharaoh in his ſleep imagined it to be. Heb. Behold the dream, i.e. The Dream did not vaniſh, as Dreams com- omg For, but was fixed in his Mind, and he co::1d not ſhake it off; by wW ich he ſaw that it was no Common or Natural, but a Divine and ſignificant Dream. |
8 Andit came to paſs in the morning, thathis ſpi- Tit was troubled 7, and he ſent and called for all the Ma- gicians k of Egypr, and allthe wiſe men / thereof ; and Pharaoh told chem his Dream 2 : but there was none that could interpriec them unto Pharaoh. |
z Becauſe he underſtood not the meaning of it, and dreaded the
GENESIS.
b Nils, | called the River fimply, becauſe of its eminency, as Homer or Virgil |
gonſequences of it, Compare Gen: 40; 6, Dan; 2.1 13+. Maith; 27-4
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'9. k Whoſe profeſſion it was to diſcover ſecret and future things; which they did either Ly the obſervation of the Sars, or by other ſuperſticious Prattices, and the help of evil Spirits. See Exod: 7. 11. and 8, 19. Dan. 2. 2,10. | Who were converſant in the ſtudy of Nature; and by reaſon of their great Sagacity, did oft-times make happy conjeCtures. m He calls them both ene Dream, either becauſe they ſeemed to portend the ſame thing, or becauſe they were the produCt of one night, and were divided only by a very little interruption.
9 75 Thea fpake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, ſay- ing, I doremember my faults this day.
7 Not againſt Joſeph by ingratitude, bur againſt the King ; by which expreſſion he both acknowledgeth the King's Juſtice in im« prifoning him, and his Clemency in Pardoning him. 1o Pharaoh was wroth with his ſervants, andput me 1n wardin the captain of the guards houſe, both me,and the chief baker.
ir And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he : we dreamed each man according to the interpre« tation of his dream *. h
* Of which Phraſe ſee on Gen: 40. 5:
12 And there as there with us a young man; an He- brew, ſervant to the captain of the guard : and we :.. _ told him, and he * interpreted to us our dreams, to *Chap.4e each man according to his dream, he did interpret. 12, O's *
13 Andit came to paſs as he interpreted to us, ſo it was ;z me he s reſtored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
0 Either r. Pharaoh. But then Hf would have mentioned either his name or Title, and not have ſpoken ſo ſlightly and indecently of him. Or rather 2. Joſeph, of whom he ſpake laſt, and who is here faid to reſtore the one, and to hang the other, becauſe he foreto'd thoſe Events, as Jeremy is ſaid to pull down and deſtroy thoſe Nations, Jer: 1. 10. whoſe deſtruftion he did only foretel.
14 T* Then Pharaoh ſent and called Joſeph, and «pc ;54 they + broughe him haftily out of the dungeon +: and +0. Ws
he ſhaved himſelf p, and changed his raiment,and came + Heb...