...Benjamin thither, Jacob said, with a heavy heart, " Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." Yet these things, he soon found were the means in the hand of God of making his cup to overflow. And...

...afraid. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee : deliver him...

...afraid. "And Jacob, their father, said unto them, me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." To Jacob's eye it seemed, indeed, as if a dark cloud hung over all the prospects of his declining years....

...afraid. 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye d bereaved of my children : Joseph it not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I brin» him not to thee : deliver...

...Witness the reluctance and exclamation of Jacob : " Me have ye bereaved of my children. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ! All these things are against me." Witness the mourning of David, even over a bad, a rebellious son. " And the king was much moved, and...

...hariinger of joy. We are like Jacob, who when deprived of Joseph and Simeon said, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things arc against me" — and yet they were the very steps by which he was to be delivered from the greatest...

...mind was sunk into a gloomy despondency, and in the bitterness of his soul he cried, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ; all these things иге against me," was at that moment the object of God's peculiar care ; and could his faith have...

...faith almost faltered. "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not," said he in the grief of liis spirit ; " and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." But how blind is man ! " all these things" were just working for his restoration to that beloved son...

...Egyptian prison. So, likewise, might his agea father have argued, when he complained, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not; and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. " Yet each lived to trace God's good hand in the tribulation, making it the very road to his greater...

...this passionate expression of grief and complaint, "Me have ye bereaved of my children, Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away, all these things are against me." Joseph already was lost, of the fate of Simeon he had no hope, and should Benjamin go to Egypt, either...