John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 39:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prisons, etc.] Who, as they were state prisoners, were a considerable charge; and this gave Joseph great honour, credit, and influence in the prison: and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it]; not that he learned and exercised every trade the prisoners were of, to get a living by, which is the sense of some, as Aben Ezra relates; or that he in fact did everything that was done in the prison: but the meaning is, that he gave orders for the doing of everything, and there was nothing done without him; all that was done, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, he commanded it to be done; or, as Onkelos, all that was done was done by his word, that is, by his authority and command.

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