Genesis 50:20 (BSB)
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
From Genesis 50. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Genesis 50:20
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 50:20: 20. Ye thought evil against me. Joseph well considers (as we have said) the providence of God; so that he imposes it on himself as a compulsory law, not only to grant pardon, but also to exercise beneficence. And although we have treated at large on this subject, in Genesis 45:1, yet it will be useful also to repeat something on it now.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 50:15-21: We have here the settling of a good correspondence between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country; yet the keeping up of a good understanding, and a good affection, between them, would be both his honour and their interest.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 50:20: Now therefore, fear ye not,.... Which, is repeated to dispossess them of every fear they might entertain of him on any account whatever: I will nourish you, and your little ones; provide food for them, and their families, not only for themselves and their sons, now grown up, but their grandchildren and even the youngest and latest of their families should share in his favours...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 50:15-21: Gen 50:15-21 After their father’s death, Joseph’s brethren were filled with alarm, and said, “If Joseph now should punish us and requite all the evil that we have done to him,” sc., what would become of us! The sentence contains an aposiopesis, like Psa 27:13; and לוּ with the imperfect presupposes a condition, being used “in cases which are not desired, and for the present...