famished] That is, vehemently hungred, he private stock of provision now being spent. cried to Pharaoh] Though it were knowne to the people that Joseph was appointed both to lay up, and lay out the provision made out of the seven years of plenty, yet many of them came unto the King; and it may be the more, because Joseph was a stranger borne, and of that Nation which the Egyptians had in great abomination; and because Pharaoh was (as a common father) to see to the safetie and succour of all his people; therefore in the famine of Samaria a woman called upon the King for helpe, 2 Kings 6:26.