Genesis 40:6 - John Wesley's Notes

Genesis 40:6

4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; so they were in custody for a while.

5 Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, ^ahad a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.

6 And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them, and saw that they were¹ sad.

7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, ^a“Why do you look so sad today?”

8 And they said to him, ^a“We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” So Joseph said to them, ^b“Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.”

9 Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,

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Genesis 40:6

They were sad - It was not the prison that made them sad; they were pretty well used to that, but the dream. God has more ways than one to sadden the spirits of those that are to be made sad. Those sinners that are hardy enough under outward trouble, yet God can find a way to trouble them, and take off their wheels, by wounding their spirits, and laying a load upon them.

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