Psalms 105:17

"He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies."

Key Reflection

The verse from Psalms 105:17 indicates that God brought a severe famine upon the land, destroying the food supplies. In the historical and literary context of ancient Israel, such a divine judgment would have been understood as a direct consequence of disobedience or sin, serving both as a punishment for past transgressions and a lesson for the current generation on the consequences of moral failure. This event underscores God's power and sovereignty over nature, a theme central to understanding his relationship with his people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He sent a man before them -That is, He so ordered it by his providence that a man - Joseph - was sent before the family of Jacob into Egypt, that he might make arrangements for their reception and preservation. The whole matter was as God had sent him, or had commanded him to go. And yet it was brought about as the result of a series of acts of the most wicked character; by the envy and the hatred of his brethren; by their guilt and hardness of heart in proposing at first to put him to death, and then in their arrangements for selling him to hopeless slavery; by their plan so to dispose of him that their father might never hear of him again, and that they might be troubled with him no more.

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