Genesis 42:21

The brothers confess to one another their guilt over how they treated Joseph long ago. Conscience, awakened by distress, links their present trouble to past sin.

Cross-references · 26

• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Gen 37:23–28When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
• Mark 9:43–45If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
• Job 36:8–9If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
• Gen 41:9Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
• Matt 7:2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
• Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• Jer 34:17Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
• 2 Sam 12:13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
• 1 Kgs 17:18She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
• Mark 9:48‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
• Prov 1:27–28when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
• Job 34:31–32“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
• Num 32:23“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Prov 28:17A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Luke 16:28for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
• Jer 2:17“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Matt 27:3–4Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Acts 19:18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• Prov 24:11–12Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
• Jer 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
• Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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