Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
19. My lord asked ] Cf. Gen 43:7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
My lord asked his servants,…. The first time they came down to Egypt to buy corn; he puts him in mind of what passed between them at that time:
saying, have ye a father or a brother? which question followed upon their saying that they were the sons of one man, Ge 42:11.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’ And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a younger one,’ and his brother is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loves him.”
Judah is now determined that the Man will realise the full position, for he knows it is the only hope. Perhaps there is something in this Man who has been such an enigma, that will move him to mercy. First then he establishes the position of the young man in his father’s affections.
“A child of his old age.” One on whom in his old age he depended for personal care and support, and the only son of his mother. Of course the Man will not realise how important Rachel had been to Jacob, but Judah does.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Here Judah represents him who made intercession for the transgressors. Isa 53:12 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Ver. 19. Have yea father? ] This we read not of till now, as we do of all the rest, in the next following verses.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 42:7-10, Gen 43:7, Gen 43:29
Reciprocal: Gen 37:7 – your sheaves Gen 37:9 – the sun