Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 41:30
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
There shall be no relics of it to keep it in mens minds, which will be so taken up with the contemplation of their present misery and future danger, that they will have neither heart nor leisure to reflect upon their former plenty, the remembrance whereof will but aggravate the present calamity.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine,…. Which might be occasioned by the river Nile not rising so high as to overflow its banks, as, when it did not rise to more than twelve cubits, a famine ensued, as the above writer says n; and it must be owing to the overruling providence of God that this should be the case for seven years running:
and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the seven years of plenty being all spent, it should be as if it never was; the minds of men would be so intent upon their present distressed case and circumstances, that they should wholly forget how it had been with them in time past; or it would be as if they had never enjoyed it, or were never the better for it: this answers to and explains how it was with the ill favoured kine, when they had eaten up the fat kine; they seemed never the better, nor could it be known by their appearance that they had so done:
and the famine shall consume the land: the inhabitants of it, and all the fruits and increase of it the former years produced.
n Nat Hist. l. 5. c. 9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
seven years. This explains and confirms the hieroglyphic inscription discovered by Wilbour at Sehel (first cataract). It is referred to in another inscription in the tomb of Baba, at El-Kab, translated by Brugsch (History of Egypt, i, 304). In July 1908, Brugsch Bey discovered inscriptions which tell how “for seven successive years the Nile did not overflow, and vegetation withered and failed; that the land was devoid of crops, and that during these years, famine and misery devastated the land of Egypt”. The date is given as 1700 B. C, which cannot be earlier, therefore, than the last year of the famine. The last year of the seven years of plenty was in B.C. 1708, according to Ussher (Gen 41:53), with which the inscription agrees. See farther, App-37.
the land. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject). App-6. the people in the land.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
seven years: Gen 41:27, Gen 41:54, 2Sa 24:13, 1Ki 17:1, 2Ki 8:1, Luk 4:25, Jam 5:17
shall be: Gen 41:21, Gen 41:51, Pro 31:7, Isa 65:16
consume: Gen 47:13, Psa 105:16
Reciprocal: Gen 41:36 – perish not Lam 3:17 – I forgat Act 11:28 – great
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 41:30. Seven years of famine See the perishing nature of our worldly enjoyments. The great increase of the years of plenty was quite lost and swallowed up in the years of famine; and the over-plus of it, which seemed very much, yet did but just serve to keep men alive.