Genesis 39:22

22 En de overste van het gevangenhuis gaf al de gevangenen, die in het gevangenhuis waren, in Jozefs hand; en al wat zij daar deden, deed hij.

Genesis 39:22 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 39:22

And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all
the prisoners that [were] in the prisons
Who, as they were state prisoners, were a considerable charge; and this gave Joseph great honour, credit, and influence in the prison: and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it];
not that he learned and exercised every trade the prisoners were of, to get a living by, which is the sense of some, as Aben Ezra relates; or that he in fact did everything that was done in the prison: but the meaning is, that he gave orders for the doing of everything, and there was nothing done without him; all that was done, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, he commanded it to be done; or, as Onkelos, all that was done was done by his word, that is, by his authority and command.

Genesis 39:22 In-Context

20 En Jozefs heer nam hem, en leverde hem in het gevangenhuis, ter plaatse, waar des konings gevangenen gevangen waren; alzo was hij daar in het gevangenhuis.

21 Doch de HEERE was met Jozef, en wende Zijn goedertierenheid tot hem; en gaf hem genade in de ogen van den overste van het gevangenhuis.

22 En de overste van het gevangenhuis gaf al de gevangenen, die in het gevangenhuis waren, in Jozefs hand; en al wat zij daar deden, deed hij.

23 De overste van het gevangenhuis zag gans op geen ding, dat in zijn hand was, overmits dat de HEERE met hem was; en wat hij deed, dat deed de HEERE wel gedijen.