Genesis 37:23-28
stript, Gen 37:3, Gen 37:31-33, Gen 42:21; Ps 22:18; Matt 27:28 colours or, pieces, Gen 37:3 and cast Ps 35:7; Lam 4:20 the pit Ps 40:2, Ps 88:6, Ps 88:8, Ps 130:1-2; Jer 38:6; Lam 3:52-55; Zech 9:11 they sat Esth 3:15; Ps 14:4; Prov 30:20; Amos 6:6 Ishmeelites Gen 37:28, Gen 37:36, Gen 16:11-12, Gen 25:1-4, Gen 25:16-18, Gen 31:23; Ps 83:6 Gilead Gen 31:21, Gen 43:11; Jer 8:22 spicery Nechoth, is rendered by the LXX "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance. balm Tzeri, which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin. myrrh Lot, is probably, as Junius, Deut. Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic ladan, Greek λαδανον, and Latin ladanum. What profit Gen 25:32; Ps 30:9; Jer 41:8; Matt 16:26; Rom 6:21 conceal Gen 37:20, Gen 4:10; Deut 17:8; 2Sam 1:16; Job 16:18; Ezek 24:7 sell him Gen 37:22; Exod 21:16, Exod 21:21; Neh 5:8; Matt 16:26, Matt 26:15; 1Tim 1:10; Rev 18:13 let not 1Sam 18:17; 2Sam 11:14-17, 2Sam 12:9 he is our Gen 29:14, Gen 42:21 were content Heb. hearkened Midianites Gen 37:25, Gen 25:2; Exod 2:16; Num 25:15, Num 25:17, Num 31:2-3, Num 31:8-9; Judg 6:1-3; Ps 83:9; Isa 60:6 sold Gen 45:4-5; Ps 105:17; Zech 11:12-13; Matt 26:15, Matt 27:9; Acts 7:9
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