Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 43:1.
Genesis 43:1
Excerpted from: How God Deals With Conscience (Part Three)Now what God did at this point was to impose the pattern of necessity upon this family. We see three kinds or patterns of necessity between Genesis 42 and 43. First, there is the necessity of nature, expressed in this case by the great famine. Instead of abating, as the brothers might have hoped it would, the famine grew worse.
Before it just stated that there was just a famine, now it has been increased to severe. Famine is a terrible scourge. This famine, recorded in Genesis 41-47, is the earliest documented famine in history. But there were undoubtedly many famines before this time due to the devastating effects of drought, wars, and plant disease, and there have certainly been many since.
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