Genesis 43:9

Judah pledges himself as personal surety for Benjamin, bearing the blame forever if he fails. His self-sacrificing guarantee finally moves Jacob.

Cross-references · 14

• Gen 42:37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
• Phlm 1:18–19But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.
• Heb 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
• Gen 44:32–33For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
• Ezek 33:6But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
• Ezek 3:20“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
• Ps 119:122Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
• Job 17:3“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
• Ezek 3:18When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
• Ezek 33:8When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
• 1 Kgs 1:21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
• Gen 31:39That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
• Gen 9:5I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
• Luke 11:50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

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