“When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
We have here a most ingenious and pathetic speech which Judah made to Joseph on Benjamin's behalf, to obtain his discharge from the sentence passed upon him. Perhaps Judah was a better friend to Benjamin than the rest were, and more solicitous to bring him off; or he thought himself under greater obligations to attempt it than the rest, because he had passed his word...
Commenting on Genesis 44:18-34
And it came to pass, when we came unto thy servant my father,.... In the land of Canaan: we told him the words of my lord; what he had said to them, particularly respecting Benjamin.
Gen 44:21-26 To “set eyes upon him” signifies, with a gracious intention, to show him good-will (as in Jer 39:12; Jer 40:4).
Commenting on Genesis 44:21-26