Genesis 37:25
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| Overview - Genesis 37 | |
| 1 | Joseph is loved by Jacob, but hated by his brethren. |
| 5 | His dreams and the interpretation. |
| 12 | Jacob sends him to his brethren, who counsel to slay him. |
| 21 | At Reuben's desire they cast him into a pit; |
| 25 | and afterwards sell him to the Ishmaelites; while Ruben grieves at not finding him. |
| 31 | His coat, covered with blood, is sent to Jacob, who mourns him inordinately. |
| 36 | Joseph is brought to Egypt and sold to Potiphar. |
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Genesis 37:25 (King James Version)
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- they sat
- Esther 3:15 ; Psalms 14:4 ; Proverbs 30:20 ; Amos 6:6
- Ishmeelites
- Genesis 37:28 Genesis 37:36 ; Genesis 16:11 Genesis 16:12 Genesis 25:1-4 Genesis 25:16-18 31:23 Psalms 83:6
- Gilead
- 31:21 43:11 Jeremiah 8:22
- spicery
- {Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac,
- "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance.
- balm
- {Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin.
- myrrh
- {Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.