And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
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Gill's Exposition
And they said unto him, we have dreamed a dream,.... Each of them:
and there is no interpreter of it; in that place in which they were, the prison; otherwise there were persons enough in the land…
- Joseph in Prison An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep the breast of Joseph in calm tranquillity. There is a God above, and that God is with him. His soul swerves not from…
Adam Clarke
There is no interpreter - They either had access to none, or those to whom they applied could give them no consistent, satisfactory meaning.
Do not interpretations belong to God? - God alone, the…
Observe, I. The special providence of God, which filled the heads of these two prisoners with unusual dreams, such as made extraordinary impressions upon them, and carried with them evidences of a…
Cambridge Bible
none that can interpret it The Egyptians regarded the interpretation of dreams as a science requiring special study; or as a department of magic needing special initiation. Had the two officials been…
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