Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 37:32
And they sent the coat of [many] colors, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or no.
Verse 32. Sent the coat of many colours – to their father] What deliberate cruelty to torture the feelings of their aged father, and thus harrow up his soul!
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They
brought it by a messenger whom they sent: men are commonly said to do what they cause others to do.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they sent the coat of [many] colours,…. Which was what they dipped in the blood of the kid; this they sent to Jacob in such a condition, by the hand of some messenger; the Targum of Jonathan says, the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah; but more probably some of their servants, whom they instructed what to say to their father when they presented it to him; not caring to appear in person at first, lest they be thrown into such commotion and confusion at their father’s distress, as might tend to lead on to a discovery of the whole affair:
and they brought [it] to their father, and said, this we have found; that is, the messengers carried to the father of Joseph’s brethren, who were sent with it, and taught to say, that they found it in some field in this condition, but found no man near it, only that by itself, and suspected it might be the coat of his son Joseph, if he had sent him out in it:
know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or no; look upon it, see if any marks can be observed in it, by which it may with any certainty be known whether it his or not.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(32) They brought it.Heb., they caused it to go, that is, sent it by the hand of a messenger. They were unwilling to see the first burst of their fathers agony.
And said.These were the words that were to be spoken by the messenger who was charged to bear the coat to Jacob.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
32. Thy son’s coat Not our brother’s! Every word of theirs in this dark pretext is studiously cruel .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 37:32. They sentand they brought, &c. i.e.. The brethren sent the coat by messengers to their father, which messengers brought it to Jacob.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 28:13 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 37:32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or no.
Ver. 32. Know now whether it be thy son’s coat.] One Philip, bishop of Beauvieu, in France, in the time of our Richard I, being a martial man, and much annoying our borders, was by King Richard in a skirmish happily taken, and put in prison. The bishop hereupon complained to the Pope, who wrote in the behalf of his son, as an ecclesiastical person, &c. The king sent to the Pope the armour he was taken in, with these words engraven thereon, “Know whether this be thy son’s coat, or not.” Which the Pope viewing, sware it was rather the coat of a son of Mars, than a son of the Church; and so bade the king use his pleasure. a
a Heyl., Geog., p. 108.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thy son’s: Gen 37:3, Gen 44:20-23, Luk 15:30
Reciprocal: Gen 4:9 – I know Gen 38:25 – Discern Gen 44:17 – in peace 2Sa 13:18 – a garment Job 1:19 – they are dead
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
37:32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours, {k} and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or no.
(k) That is, the messengers who were sent.