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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed <i>their flocks</i>.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/37.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/genesis/37.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/genesis/37.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/genesis/37.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/genesis/37.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/genesis/37.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/genesis/37.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/37.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/genesis/37.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a 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Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/genesis/37.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>37:12-22 How readily does Joseph wait his father's orders! Those children who are best beloved by their parents, should be the most ready to obey them. See how deliberate Joseph's brethren were against him. They thought to slay him from malice aforethought, and in cold blood. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, 1Jo 3:15. The sons of Jacob hated their brother because their father loved him. New occasions, as his dreams and the like, drew them on further; but this laid rankling in their hearts, till they resolved on his death. God has all hearts in his hands. Reuben had most reason to be jealous of Joseph, for he was the first-born; yet he proves his best friend. God overruled all to serve his own purpose, of making Joseph an instrument to save much people alive. Joseph was a type of Christ; for though he was the beloved Son of his Father, and hated by a wicked world, yet the Father sent him out of his bosom to visit us in great humility and love. He came from heaven to earth to seek and save us; yet then malicious plots were laid against him. His own not only received him not, but crucified him. This he submitted to, as a part of his design to redeem and save us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/37.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Joseph is sent to Dothan. Shekem belonged to Jacob; part of it by purchase, and the rest by conquest. Joseph is sent to inquire of their welfare (שׁלום shālom "peace," <a href="/genesis/37-4.htm">Genesis 37:4</a>). With obedient promptness the youth goes to Shekem, where he learns that they had removed to Dothan, a town about twelve miles due north of Shekem.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/genesis/37.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13-17. Israel said, … Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?—Anxious to learn how his sons were doing in their distant encampment, Jacob despatched Joseph; and the youth, accepting the mission with alacrity, left the vale of Hebron, sought them at Shechem, heard of them from a man in "the field" (the wide and richly cultivated plain of Esdraelon), and found that they had left that neighborhood for Dothan, probably being compelled by the detestation in which, from the horrid massacre, their name was held.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/genesis/37.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/genesis/37.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he said, I seek my brethren,.... Whom, no doubt, he described to the man, and told him who they were, and to whom they belonged; or otherwise the man would have been at a loss to know who he meant, and what further to say to him, and without which Joseph would never have made the following request to him: <p>tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks; in what part of the country they are, what field they are in, how far to it, and which the way. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/genesis/37.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Genesis 37:16<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/genesis/37.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>In a short time the hatred of Joseph's brethren grew into a crime. On one occasion, when they were feeding their flock at a distance from Hebron, in the neighbourhood of Shechem (Nablus, in the plain of Mukhnah), and Joseph who was sent thither by Jacob to inquire as to the welfare (shalom, valetudo) of the brethren and their flocks, followed them to Dothain or Dothan, a place 12 Roman miles to the north of Samaria (Sebaste), towards the plain of Jezreel, they formed the malicious resolution to put him, "this dreamer," to death, and throw him into one of the pits, i.e., cisterns, and then to tell (his father) that a wild beast had slain him, and so to bring his dreams to nought. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../genesis/37-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 37:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 37:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/37-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 37:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 37:17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>