Genesis 40:19

Genesis 40:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
• New International Version (NIV)Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you."
• New King James Version (NKJV)Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

Context of Genesis 40:19

17The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.” 18“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days. Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.” 20Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials. 21He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.

Genesis 40:19 word by word

בְּע֣וֹד׀ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֗ים יִשָּׂ֨א פַרְעֹ֤ה אֶת־רֹֽאשְׁךָ֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְתָלָ֥ה אוֹתְךָ֖ עַל־עֵ֑ץ וְאָכַ֥ל הָע֛וֹף אֶת־בְּשָׂרְךָ֖ מֵעָלֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yet within threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• shall Pharaohפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547
• lift upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
• thy headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• from off thee, and shall hangתָּלָהtâlâh · to hangH8518
• thee on a treeעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086
• and the birdsעוֹף‛ôph · birdH5775
• shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• thy fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320

Cross-references for Genesis 40:19

• Genesis 40:13Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer.
• Genesis 40:22But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.
• Genesis 41:13And everything happened just as he had predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker was executed and impaled on a pole.”
• Deuteronomy 21:22“If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,
• Joshua 8:29Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.
• Joshua 10:26Then Joshua killed each of the five kings and impaled them on five sharpened poles, where they hung until evening.
• 2 Samuel 21:6So let seven of Saul’s sons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord at Gibeon, on the mountain of the Lord.” “All right,” the king said, “I will do it.”
• Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocks a father and despises a mother’s instructions will be plucked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by vultures.
• Galatians 3:13But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Genesis 40:17The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
• 1 Samuel 17:44“Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.
• 2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the men, spread burlap on a rock and stayed there the entire harvest season. She prevented the scavenger birds from tearing at their bodies during the day and stopped wild animals from eating them at night.
• Ezekiel 39:4You and your army and your allies will all die on the mountains. I will feed you to the vultures and wild animals.
• Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.

Commentaries on Genesis 40:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Lift up thy head from off thee - Thus we find that beheading, hanging, and gibbeting, were modes of punishment among the ancient Egyptians; but the criminal was beheaded before he was hanged, and then either hanged on hooks, or by the hands. See Lamentations 5:12.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-23Verses 1-23 - Joseph in Prison An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep the breast of Joseph in calm tranquillity. There is a God above, and that God is with him. His soul swerves not from this feeling. Meanwhile, new and distinguished prisoners are introduced into his place of confinement. Genesis 40:1-4 The chief butler and chief baker, high officials in Pharaoh‘s court, come under the displeasure of their sovereign. “In the house…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-19Joseph listened to the dreams and gave their interpretations. These dreams were not trivial. They were serious warnings from God about what everyone would soon face. These two dreams also prepare for Pharaoh’s two dreams, which reveal the coming seasons of life and death that the nation would soon experience.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-1918-19. Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation--The purport was that in three days his execution should be ordered. The language of Joseph describes minutely one form of capital punishment that prevailed in Egypt; namely, that the criminal was decapitated and then his headless body gibbeted on a tree by the highway till it was gradually devoured by the ravenous birds.Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 40:19

• Dream
• Hanging
• Joseph

In the dictionaries

• Pharaoh
• Pharaoh, king of Egypt
• Behead
• Cupbearer
• Feast
• Gallows
• Lift
• Lord
• Press
• Restore

Commentaries on Genesis 40

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings