Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, [both] me and the chief baker:
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants,…. Not with all of them, but with the butler and the baker. Aben Ezra observes here, that Pharaoh was not the proper name of this king, but a title of office, and signifies the king; for it cannot be thought that the butler would use such freedom in his presence as to call him by his name: the true name of this prince, according to the eastern writers f, was Rian ben Walid; others take him to be Aphophis, the third of the Hycsi, or pastor kings: but, according to Bishop Usher g, his name was Mephramuthosis:
and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house: in consequence of his wrath and displeasure, for crimes really or supposed to be committed by him; and the captain of the guard’s house was a prison, or at least there was a prison in it for such sort of offenders; and this was Potiphar’s, Joseph’s master’s, house:
[both] me and the chief baker; which explains who the officers were Pharaoh was wroth with, and who were for their offences committed to prison.
f Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. g Annales Ver. Test. p. 14.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Sa 21:8 ; Psa 105:20 . How strange the effect on the mind of Joseph! Such the church experienced, Psa 126 . Such every gracious soul experienceth. Zec 3:4 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, [both] me and the chief baker:
Ver. 10. Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, &c. ] It is wisdom in a man to confess his faults before the prince whom he hath offended; and to commend his clemency in pardoning them: as Cicero did Caesar’s; a as Mephibosheth did David’s, &c. The Lord Cobham, the Lord Gray, Sir Griffin Markham, being condemned for treason, about the beginning of King James, anno 1603, and brought forth to execution, as they were upon the scaffold, the sheriff notified the king’s pardon, his Majesty’s warrant for the stay of the execution: at which unexpected clemency, besides the great shouts of the people, the condemned wished that they might sacrifice their lives to redeem their fault, and to repurchase so merciful a prince’s love. b
a Orat. pro M. Marcello, et O. Ligario, &c.
b Bp. Carleton’s Thankful Remembrance of God’s Mercies , p. 181.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Pharaoh: Gen 39:20, Gen 40:2, Gen 40:3
captain: Gen 37:36
Reciprocal: Gen 42:17 – ward Jam 5:16 – Confess