...saw not Simeon among them, a suspicion of the most dreadful nature seems to have seized his mind. " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away." He probably guessed but too truly, that they were the guilty cause of Joseph having disappeared...

...break out into 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,...

...who wished to take Benjamin with them into Egypt. " Me ye have bereaved of my children,'* said he ; " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ; all these things are against me." And when his sons, on a previous occasion, had committed the...

...was ascribing it all to some second cause. Mark how he said, " Ale have ye bereaved of my children ; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ;" ye will do it all — forgetting that they could do nothing, save only what God permitted them...

...— He is a blessed man ! 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. GEN. xlii. 36. From this history we may see how providence...

...gold are purged from dross in the fiery furnace ? How greatly mistaken was Jacob, when he cried out, "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin also : all these things are against me !" His irritated and anxious feelings got the better of his faith,...

...be separated from him, exclaimed with a touching melancholy, " Me have ye bereaved of my children. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things arc agninst me." This is not, indeed, a settled depression; but it serves to...

...there became convinced of the unreasonableness of that despondency which a little before had said, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." The good old patriarch became convinced that these things...

...with God and prevailed ; — and it was again ao with him when, in the anguish of his heart, he said, "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." It was so wilh Judah, when in the presence of the stern governor...

...the bereavements of the patriarch, when exclaiming, in all the wretchedness of utter desolation, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me 7" Our limits forbid us to dwell upon scenes so familiar to...