Joseph was probably both gratified and sad about the outcome. He was glad that the interpretations from God were correct, and happy also for the cupbearer’s being restored to serving Pharaoh. However, he must have been sad that the baker was killed. After all, relationships even in prison are relationships nonetheless, and they can be […]
Time went by and relationships formed. Mundane, so they seemed. Commonplace is what they appeared to be. After all, what kind of relationships could exist among fellow prisoners? Actually, a shared road of suffering and common experience often form a foundation of deep friendship. The cupbearer and baker may have felt it for Joseph, and […]
Genesis 40:1 Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 3 and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same […]
Had Potiphar been mad primarily at Joseph, he could have executed him then, there in front of his wife, no questions asked. But Potiphar had likely seen God’s favor that followed Joseph and noted that his wife seemed awfully comfortable with that trophy cloak as a souvenir. He probably knew she was a liar from […]
Joseph was contented. He was a slave but a privileged one because Potiphar clearly saw the blessing and didn’t want to jeopardize it at all. Joseph lived in his master’s house and had a very good life, for a slave, that is. Genesis 39:6 “So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph […]
Fast forward through a chapter of Genesis and we catch up with Joseph far from home. He was formerly Daddy’s favorite with a coat of authority, but resented by his brothers, and now he’s the slave who had been in the Ishmaelite caravan to be sold a second time, first by family and now by […]
A perfectly imperfect plan…ruined! Reuben had been off somewhere while his brothers were making plans (to foil the plan they didn’t even know existed because Reuben had been keeping it secret). Genesis 37:29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. The tearing of his own […]
Those brothers: traitors and betrayers of the family trust, plotting and planning to defy authority and rip up that stupid coat of Joseph’s that they hated. Genesis 37:23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— Yeah, that robe of his really ticked them off… […]
Joseph’s mission to Shechem was divinely redirected to Dothan but his true destination was an empty cistern. Only Joseph didn’t know it. He could not predict–as he paraded in with his colorful coat of authority–that he was about to be stripped of that authority and to hit rock bottom. Of a cistern, that is. Genesis […]
Joseph was wandering around the fields of Shechem when a chance encounter gave him some direction to locate his brothers. “’They have moved on from here,’ the man answered. ‘I heard them say, “Let’s go to Dothan. “’ So, Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.” (Genesis 37:17) Joseph–that dreamer who gave […]
