Psalms 105:20

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king sent for him and released him;the ruler of peoples set him free.

Hebrew Names Version
The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

King James Version
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

English Standard Version
The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free;

New Century Version
The king of Egypt sent for Joseph and freed him; the ruler of the people set him free.

New English Translation
The king authorized his release; the ruler of nations set him free.

Amplified Bible
The king sent and released him, The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.

New American Standard Bible
The king sent and released him, The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

World English Bible
The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The King sent and loosed him: euen the Ruler of the people deliuered him.

Legacy Standard Bible
The king sent and released him,The ruler of peoples sent and set him free.

Berean Standard Bible
The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

Contemporary English Version
Then the king of Egypt set Joseph free

Complete Jewish Bible
The king sent and had him released, the ruler of peoples set him free;

Darby Translation
The king sent and loosed him—the ruler of peoples—and let him go free.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the king of Egypt set him free. That nation's leader let him out of jail.

George Lamsa Translation
The king sent and released him, and made him a ruler over his people.

Good News Translation
Then the king of Egypt had him released; the ruler of nations set him free.

Lexham English Bible
The king sent and he freed him; the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose.

Literal Translation
the king, the ruler of peoples, sent and shook off his links and set him free;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sent the kinge and caused him be delyuered, the prynce of the people bad let him go.

American Standard Version
The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Bible in Basic English
The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the peoples, and set him free.

King James Version (1611)
The king sent and loosed him: euen the ruler of the people, and let him goe free.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free.

English Revised Version
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the king sente and vnbond hym; the prince of puplis sente and delyuerede him.

Update Bible Version
The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Webster's Bible Translation
The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

New King James Version
The king sent and released him, The ruler of the people let him go free.

New Living Translation
Then Pharaoh sent for him and set him free; the ruler of the nation opened his prison door.

New Life Bible
The king sent and had him taken out of prison. The ruler of many people set him free.

New Revised Standard
The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The king sent, and set him free, One having dominion over peoples, yet loosed he his bonds;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-20) The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

Revised Standard Version
The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free;

Young's Literal Translation
The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The king sent and released him, The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶Then he called down a famine on the country, he broke every last blade of wheat. But he sent a man on ahead: Joseph, sold as a slave. They put cruel chains on his ankles, an iron collar around his neck, Until God's word came to the Pharaoh, and God confirmed his promise. God sent the king to release him. The Pharaoh set Joseph free; He appointed him master of his palace, put him in charge of all his business To personally instruct his princes and train his advisors in wisdom. ²³Then Israel entered Egypt, Jacob immigrated to the Land of Ham. God gave his people lots of babies; soon their numbers alarmed their foes. He turned the Egyptians against his people; they abused and cheated God's servants. Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he also chose. They worked marvels in that spiritual wasteland, miracles in the Land of Ham. He spoke, "Darkness!" and it turned dark— they couldn't see what they were doing. He turned all their water to blood so that all their fish died; He made frogs swarm through the land, even into the king's bedroom; He gave the word and flies swarmed, gnats filled the air. He substituted hail for rain, he stabbed their land with lightning; He wasted their vines and fig trees, smashed their groves of trees to splinters; With a word he brought in locusts, millions of locusts, armies of locusts; They consumed every blade of grass in the country and picked the ground clean of produce; He struck down every firstborn in the land, the first fruits of their virile powers. He led Israel out, their arms filled with loot, and not one among his tribes even stumbled. Egypt was glad to have them go— they were scared to death of them. God spread a cloud to keep them cool through the day and a fire to light their way through the night; They prayed and he brought quail, filled them with the bread of heaven; He opened the rock and water poured out; it flowed like a river through that desert— All because he remembered his Covenant, his promise to Abraham, his servant.

Bible Verse Review
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Genesis 41:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:55 - Go unto Psalms 107:14 - brake

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The king sent and loosed him,.... That is, Pharaoh king of Egypt sent messengers to the prison, and ordered Joseph to be loosed, as soon as ever he heard the account which the chief butler gave of him, and of his skill in interpreting dreams.

Even the ruler of the people; or "peoples": the subjects of Pharaoh's kingdom being very numerous.

And let him go free, ordered his fetters to be taken off, and him to be set at liberty, to go where he pleased; or, however, that he might come to court, whither he was brought, and which was the end of his releasement; see Genesis 41:14, in this he was a type of Christ in his resurrection from the dead; who for a while was under the dominion of death, was held with the pains and cords of it, and was under the power and in the prison of the grave; but it was not possible, considering the dignity of his person, and the performance of his work as a surety, that he should be held here. Wherefore the cords and pains of death were loosed, and he was brought out of prison; God his Father, the King of kings, sent an angel from heaven, to roll away the stone of the sepulchre, and let the prisoner free; so that he was legally and judicially discharged and acquitted; as it was proper he should, having satisfied both law and justice; he was justified in the Spirit when he rose from the dead, and all his people were justified in him, for he rose again for their justification.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king sent and loosed him - Released him from prison. Genesis 41:14. The object was that he might interpret the dreams of Pharaoh.

The ruler of the people, and let him go free - Hebrew, “peoples,” in the plural - referring either to the fact that there were “many” people in the land, or that Pharaoh ruled over tributary nations as well as over the Egyptians.