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money, they could not have been worse frightened than they were now when they found their money in their sacks. Thus he whose ground brought forth plentifully said, What shall I do? Lu 12:17.
2. Yet in their circumstances it was very amazing. They knew that the Egyptians abhorred a Hebrew (Ge 43:32), and therefore, since they could not expect to receive any kindness from them, they concluded that this was done with a design to pick a quarrel with them, and the rather because the man, the lord of the land, had charged them as spies. Their own consciences also were awake, and their sins set in order before them; and this put them into confusion. Note,
(1.) When men's spirits are sinking everything helps to sink them.
(2.) When the events of Providence concerning us are surprising it is good to enquire what it is that God has done and is doing with us, and to consider the operation of his hands.
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took
us for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, we are true men; we are no spies: 32 we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, hereby shall I
know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every
man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Here is, 1 The report which Jacob's sons made to their father of the great distress they had been in in Egypt; how they had