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happiness, and his service their business, will find him a better Master than Pharaoh was, and not so extreme to mark what they do amiss. Many conjectures there are concerning the offence of these servants of Pharaoh; some make it no less than an attempt to take away his life, others no more than the casual lighting of a fly into his cup and a little sand into his bread. Whatever it was, Providence by this means brought them into the prison where Joseph was.
2 The captain of the guard himself, who was Potiphar, charged Joseph with them (Ge 40:4), which intimates that he began now to be reconciled to him, and perhaps to be convinced of his innocence, though he durst not release him for fear of disobliging his wife. John Baptist must lose his head, to please Herodias.
3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard,
into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
served them: and they continued a season in ward.
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one
night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Observe, the special providence of God, which filled the heads of these two prisoners with unusual dreams, such as made extraordinary impressions upon them, and carried with them evidences of a divine origin, both in one night. Note, God has immediate access to the spirits of men, which he can make serviceable to his own purposes whenever he pleases, quite beyond the intention of those concerned. To him all hearts are open, and anciently he spoke not only to his own people, but to others, in dreams, Job 33:15. Things to come were thus foretold, but very obscurely.
6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
them, and, behold, they were sad.
The impression which was made upon these prisoners by their dreams (Ge 40:6): They were sad. It was not the prison that