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and they fed in a meadow. And, behold, seven other kine came 3 up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. And the ill 4 favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. And he slept and dreamed 5 the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And, behold, seven thin ears and 6 blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. And the seven 7 thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And it came to pass in the 8 morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and

unto Pharaoh) the seven thin and ill favoured
kine that came up after "them” (“the well-
favoured") are seven years.
Ge. xli. 17. 27.
A meadow.] See verse 8.
3 Ill favoured and leanfleshed.] See verses 4.
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4 So Pharaoh awoke.] And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. 1 Ki. iii. 15.

5 Rank and good.] Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat, (he, the Lord) made him (Jacob) to suck. De. xxxii. 14.

6 Blasted with the east wind.] Yea, behold (this vine which bent its roots to the great eagle in the parable), being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? (as an emblem of God's judgments) it shall wither in the furrows where it grew. Ez. xvii. 10. But "she" (the "vine" representing Jerusalem in the parable) was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken, and withered; the fire consumed them. Ez. xix. 12. Though he (Ephraim) be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. Ho. xiii. 15.

7 A dream.] See chap. xx. 3. and xxxvii.

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8 His spirit was troubled.] And Joseph came in unto them (the butler and baker of Pharaoh) in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. Ge. xl. 6. Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. And the king said unto them (the magicians, &c.), I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Dan. ii. 1, 2, 3. I saw a dream (said Nebuchadnezzar unto all the people, nations, and languages) which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me. Da. iv. 1. 5. Then Daniel (when he heard the king's dream) was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him.

Da. iv. 19. The king's (Belshazzar's) countenance was changed (when he saw the fingers of a man's hand, writing upon the plaster of the wall), and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Da. v. 6. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me (at the vision of God's kingdom): but I kept the matter in my heart. Da. vii. 28. When I heard (of God's severe judgments against Judah) my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. Hab. iii. 16.

The magicians.] Then (when Moses' rod was turned into a serpent) Pharaoh also called the wise men, and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. Ex. vii. 11. And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the Lord had said. Er. vii. 22. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. Then (when the dust of the earth became lice at the word of Aaron) the magicians (when they could not bring forth lice) said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. Ex. viii. 7. 18, 19. And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. Ex. ix. 11. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them. Le. xix. 31. The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. Le. xx. 6. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations; there shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer; for all that do

Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could 9 interpret them unto Pharaoh. Then spake the chief butler unto

The wise men thereof.] When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. Mat. ii. 1. Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. Ac. vii. 22.

these things are an abomination unto the Lord: thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God: for these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners. De. xviii. 9-14. And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek But there was none that could interpret, &c.] unto their God? for the living to the dead? We have dreamed a dream (said Pharaoh's Is. viii. 19. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail butler and baker), and there is no interpreter in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the interpretations belong to God? Tell me them, idols, and to the charmers, and to them that I pray you. Ge. xl. 8. and com. He dishave familiar spirits, and to the wizards. Is. appointeth the devices of the crafty, so that xix. 3. Behold, I will proceed to do a mar- their hands cannot perform their enterprise: vellous work among this people, even a marhe taketh the wise in their own craftiness, vellous work and wonder: for the wisdom of and the counsel of the froward is carried their wise men shall perish, and the under- headlong. Job v. 12, 13. The secret of the standing of their prudent men shall be hid. Lord is with them that fear him, and he will Is. xxix. 14. Stand now (0 Babylon) with shew them his covenant. Ps. xxv. 14. Surely thine enchantments, and with the multitude the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings! wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let Where are they? where are thy wise men? now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the and let them tell thee now, and let them monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed thee from these things that shall come upon upon Egypt. The princes of Zoan are become thee. Is. xlvii. 12, 13. In all matters of wis- fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they dom and understanding, that the king (Nebu- have also seduced Egypt. The Lord hath chadnezzar) enquired of them (Daniel, Hana- mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: niah, Mishael, and Azariah), he found them and they have caused Egypt to err in every ten times better than all the magicians and work thereof. Is. xix. 11-14. The wisdom astrologers that were in all his realm. Da. i. of their wise men shall perish, and the under 20. Then the king (being troubled with dreams) standing of their prudent men shall be hid. commanded to call the magicians, and the as- Is. xxix. 14. Then spake the Chaldeans to trologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: for to shew the king his dreams. Da. ii. 2. tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the interpretation. It is a rare thing that the the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I king requireth, and there is none other that (said Nebuchadnezzar) told the dream before can shew it before the king, except the gods, them; but they did not make known unto whose dwelling is not with flesh. Daniel me the interpretation thereof. Da. iv. 7. answered in the presence of the king, and The king cried aloud to bring in the astro- said, The secret which the king hath delogers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: manded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, and the king spake, and said to the wise men the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, king; but there is a God in heaven that and shew me (Belshazzar) the interpretation revealeth secrets. Thy dream, and the visions thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have of thy head, are these, &c. Da. ii. 4. 11. 27, a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be 28. Then came in all the king's wise men: the third ruler in the kingdom. There is a man but they could not read the writing (which in thy kingdom (said the queen to Belshazzar), the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the plaster in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in of the wall of the king's palace), nor make the days of thy father light and understand- known to the king (Belshazzar) the intering and wisdom was found in him; whom the pretation thereof. Da. v. 8. For it is writking Nebuchadnezzar thy father made master ten, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and and will bring to nothing the understanding soothsayers. Da. v. 7. 11. Then certain of the prudent. 1 Co. i. 19. If any man philosophers of the Epicureans and of the among you seemeth to be wise in this world, Stoics encountered "him" ("Paul"): and let him become a fool, that he may be wise. some said, What will this babbler say? Ac. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness xvii. 18. with God: for it is written, He taketh the

Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: Pharaoh was 10 wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker: And we dreamed a 11 dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. And there was there with us a 12 young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. And it came to pass, as 13 he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and 14 they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 1 Co. iii. 18, 19, 20. 19 I do remember my faults.] It came to pass, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt; and he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. Think on me (said Joseph to the butler, having interpreted his dream) when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. Ge. xl. 1. 3. 14. 23.

10 Was wroth.] His wrath was kindled. And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound. Ge. xxxix. 20. And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers; and he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. Ge. xl. 2, 3.

Captain of the guard's house.] The Midianites sold him (Joseph) into Egypt, unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard. Ge. xxxvii. 36.

11 Dreamed a dream.] See Ge. xl. 5. 8. and com.

12 See Ge. xxxix. 1. 20.

He interpreted to us our dreams.] And Joseph said unto him (the butler), This is the interpretation of "it" (" of your dream"): The three branches are three days; yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream; and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days; yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee VOL. I.

on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. Ge. xl. 12-19.

13 Me he restored.] See chap. xl. 12—22. and com. See, I have this day set thee (Jeremiah) over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. Je. i. 10. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I (Ezekiel) saw by the river Chebar: and I fell upon my face. Ez. xliii. 3.

14 Sent and called Joseph.] The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich; he bringeth low and lifteth up; he raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them. 1 Sa. ii. 7, 8. Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent and loosed him (Joseph); even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his senators wisdom. Ps. cv. 19He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill: that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. Ps. cxiii. 7, 8.

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And they brought him hastily, &c.] Then (when the locusts covered the land) Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. Ex. x. 16. See 1 Sa. ii. 8. preced. com. and Ps. cxiii. 7, 8. (when Daniel desired to be brought before the king) Arioch (whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon) brought in Daniel before the king (Nebuchadnezzar) in haste. Da. ii. 25.

He shaved himself.] And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, came down to meet the king (David), and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day

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15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, 16 that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pha17 raoh an answer of peace. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my

he came again in peace. 2 Sa. xix. 24. And (Evil-merodach) changed his (Jehoiachin's) prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 2 Ki. xxv. 29. When Mordecai perceived all that was done (for extirpating the Jews by Ahasuerus and Haman) Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes. So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received it not. Es. iv. 1. 4. It came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house. Es. v. 1. (The Lord hath anointed "me") ("Christ") to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation; he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Is. lxi. 3. 10. And (Evil-merodach) spake kindly unto "him" ("Jehoiachin, king of Judah"), and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; and changed his prison garments. Je. lii. 32, 33.

15 I have heard say of thee.] See verses 9-13. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. Ps. xxv. 14. An excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpret ing of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king (Nebuchadnezzar) named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called (said the queen), and he will shew the interpretation. I have heard of thee (said Belshazzar to Daniel), that thou canst make interpretations and dissolve doubts. Da. v.

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16 It is not in me.] See chap. xl. 8. with And he (the Lord) said (to Aaron and Miriam), Hear now my words; If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. Nu. xii. 6. And he (the king of Israel) said (unto the woman that cried "Help, my lord, O king," in the famine of Samaria), If the Lord do not help

thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the winepress ? 2 Ki. vi. 27. Then Daniel (when he heard the king's dream) went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said, I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee. But as for me (said Daniel), this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes, that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou (0 king) mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Da. ii. 18, 19. 23. 30. I thought it good (said Nebuchadnezzar) to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. Da. iv. 2. And “he” (" Peter") took "him” (“the lame man”) by the right hand, and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength. And when Peter saw it (how the people wondered), he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we (Peter and John) had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus (in making this man whole). Ac. iii. 7. 12, 13. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of (that the priest of Jupiter and the people of Lystra would have done sacrifice to them), they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, Sirs, why de ye these things? we also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye would turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein. Ac. xiv. 14, 15. By the grace of God (saima Paul) I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain: but í laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Co. xv. 10. Such trust have we through Christ, to God-ward; not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. 2 Co. iii. 4, 5, &c.

Of peace, &c.] And he (Jacob) said to him

dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: And, behold, 18 there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and wellfavoured; and they fed in a meadow: And, behold, seven other 19 kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven 20 fat kine: And when they had eaten them up, it could not be 21 known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. And I saw in my dream, and, 22 behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: And, be- 23 hold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: And the thin ears devoured the seven good 24 ears and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, 25

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17 In my dream.] See verses 1. 7.

18 Fat-fleshed, &c.] The Lord shewed me (said Jeremiah), and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely, thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their hurt; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. And

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them, and to their fathers. Je. xxiv. 1. 3. 5. 8, 9, 10.

21 Eaten them up.] And he (the Lord) said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll I give thee. Then did I eat it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. Ez. iii. 3. And I (John) went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book: and he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in

thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, and as soon as I had eaten it my belly was bitter. Re. x. 9, 10.

Still ill-favoured.] They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. Ps. xxxvii. 19. And he (Israel) shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry, and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied. They shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm.

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23 Thin.] See verse 6. Their inhabitants (of the fenced cities destroyed by Sennacherib, king of Assyria) were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. 2 Ki. xix. 26. Let "them" ("the enemies of Israel") be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up, wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. Ps. cxxix. 6, 7. "They" ("Israel and Judah") have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Ho. viii. 7. Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. Ho. ix. 16. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. Ho. xiii. 15.

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24 I told this unto the magicians.] See verse

Then the magicians (when they saw the plague of lice) said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. Ex. viii. 19. I told the dream before" them" ("the "magicians"), but they did not make known unto "me" ("Nebuchadnezzar'") the interpretation of the dream. Da. iv. 7.

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