“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
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 been suspected, and threatened, and obliged to leave Simeon a prisoner there, till they should bring Benjamin with them thither. Who would have thought of this when they left home?
Commenting on Genesis 42:29-38
And, bring your youngest brother unto me,.... Their brother Benjamin: then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men; he knew they were no spies now, but true, honest, upright men, with respect to any designs upon the country; but then he should own and acknowledge them to be such, having such plain proof that what they said was...
Gen 42:29-34 On their arrival at home, they told their father all that had occurred.
Commenting on Genesis 42:29-34