Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:6
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6, 7. he overtook them, and he spake . . . these words —The steward's words must have come upon them like a thunderbolt, and one of their most predominant feelings must have been the humiliating and galling sense of being made so often objects of suspicion. Protesting their innocence, they invited a search. The challenge was accepted [ Genesis 44:10 ; Genesis 44:11 ]. Beginning with the eldest, every sack was examined, and the cup being found in Benjamin's [ Genesis 44:12 ], they all returned in an indescribable agony of mind to the house of the governor [ Genesis 44:13 ], throwing themselves at his feet [ Genesis 44:14 ], with the remarkable confession, "God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants" [ Genesis 44:16 ]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"
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