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urged it as an instance of their honesty that they had brought their money back (Ge 44:8), and offered to submit to the severest punishment if they should be found guilty, Ge 44:9, 10.
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and
we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
10 And he said, now also let it be according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
and opened every man his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest:
and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
How the theft was fastened upon Benjamin. In his sack the cup was found to whom Joseph had been particularly kind. Benjamin, no doubt, was ready to deny, upon oath, the taking of the cup, and we may suppose him as little liable to suspicion as any of them; but it is in vain to confront such notorious evidence: the cup is found in his custody; they dare not arraign Joseph's justice, nor so much as suggest that perhaps he that had put their money in their sacks' mouths had put the cup there; but they throw themselves upon Joseph's mercy.
13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
returned to the city.
14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet
there: and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done?
wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
16 And Judah said, what shall we say unto my lord? What shall we
speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Here is their humble submission, Ge 44:16.
1. They acknowledge the righteousness of God: God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants, perhaps referring to the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Note, Even in those afflictions wherein we apprehend ourselves wronged by