Acts 7:9 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 7:9

7 ^a‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will ^bjudge,’ said God, ^c‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’

8 ^aThen He gave him the covenant of circumcision; ^band so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; ^cand Isaac begot Jacob, and ^dJacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

The Patriarchs in Egypt

9 ^a“And the patriarchs, becoming envious, ^bsold Joseph into Egypt. ^cBut God was with him

10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, ^aand gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

11 ^aNow a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

12 ^aBut when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him—Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel's opposition to God's purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.

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