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But in his chequered course, as we know, their maids were given as concubines, with many a child and many a sorrow. The proper translation according to this sceptic is: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah. There is no such bright moment in his past life as in the circumstances of his death-bed. ( Genesis 37:1-4) Jacob favors Joseph. God had told Abraham that his descendants would become slaves in a foreign land, and would remain there till Canaan was ready for judgment. And so he is rejected by his brethren and sold. Ah, there was no lacerating of his heart now! Joseph was the man to carry out what he had seen beforehand from God; and Joseph accordingly becomes ruler next to Pharaoh over all the land of Egypt. Can one believe that Jacob meant to visit him at mount Seir? This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." As the blessings allude to the history of the twelve heads of the nation, so naturally we have the future that awaits the tribes of Israel. Earthly honours did not settle him down in Egypt. I. And they took him, and cast him into a pit: the pit was empty, there was no water in it ( Genesis 37:24 ). In the same power did Elohim remember Rachael, who not only confesses that the God of creation had taken away her reproach, but calls her son Joseph saying, Jehovah shall add to me another son. Free delivery for many products! 29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. They sat down to eat bread Every act is perfectly in character, and describes forcibly the brutish and diabolic nature of their ruthless souls.. A company of Ishmaelites We may naturally suppose that this was a caravan, composed of different tribes that, for their greater safety, were travelling together, and of which Ishmaelites and Midianites . What profit is it to kill him? And on the journey there the aged father has a fresh sorrow and shame in the foul sin of his first-born. Then after the genealogies of the chapter,* we have the meeting between Jacob and Joseph. "Strange gods "? Note, The wrath of man shall praise God, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain, Psalms 76:10. I take this opportunity Of noticing the beauty of Scripture in the use of the divine names in these chapters, the best answer to the superficial folly which attributes them to different writers and documents. Note, Where envy reigns pity is banished, and humanity itself is forgotten, Proverbs 27:4. We have Reuben and Simeon; and then others come forward, Judah more particularly at the close, and Benjamin. Passage Lookup; He is in slavery, first of all in the house of Potiphar, captain of the guard; but "Jehovah was with Joseph; and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian." It came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him ( Genesis 37:23 ); Even as they stripped Jesus of His robe and cast lots. It is vain to quote Numbers 3:17 to set aside the peculiar force of the allusion to the sons of Pharez in Genesis 46:12, with which there is no real analogy. The Messiah was to come through the tribe of Judah, not the tribe of Joseph. Hence we find that though the blessing was wrested fraudulently from Isaac, he is astonished to find where he had been drifting through yielding to nature; for indeed flesh wrought in Isaac, but for the time it ruled, I may say, in Rebecca and in Jacob. So Joseph no doubt was suffering much from the attitude and the actions of his older brothers. And the man said, They are departed from here; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. I believe, therefore, with the amplest authority in Hebrew, that as the language admits of our taking Shiloh as the subject, not object, so the sense in the context demands that we render it "until Shiloh (i.e. Unswerving fidelity is true of One only. The words are explicit: 'And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name.' Real problems arose there in the family of sibling rivalry, of hatred, and their inability now to even say a kind word to him. And they make the man child that comes forth from the woman sort of a supersaint who are caught up during the midst of the Great Tribulation period, but that is surely a straining of the text and not a natural scriptural flowing. Is it not monstrous for a man professing Christianity and ostensibly in the position of bishop, to neglect elements so necessary to a judgment of the question, and to pronounce the Biblical account "certainly incredible," mainly on the assumption that Pharez's sons were born in Canaan, which is nowhere said but rather room left for the inference that it was not so in the exceptional form of Genesis 46:12? The expression usually translated by the dreamer [Genesis 37:19] means much more than our English word, namely, the one empowered to prophetic dreams." But, more than that, we have Joseph. The truth is that all the good is on God's part, all the evil on man's. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. "[16] The actual sale of Joseph is related next. The sons of Jacob appear in a poor light indeed in this tragic chapter. It was therefore impossible to find a closer parity between any than in these two sons of Isaac and Rebecca. I have no doubt that this is given us as an important element to mark how rapidly what is not of God shoots up. This likely ends the record preserved by Jacob himself (who recounted the death of Rachel), and the next line begins the record preserved by Joseph himself. Very sharp contention there. 4. [Note: von Rad, p. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. This particular dream of Joseph helps us in the understanding of the book of Revelation. Joseph willingly listens, and interprets according to the wisdom of God that was given him. The issue of all is this, that at last Judah and his brethren return to Joseph's house. But what humiliation was He not willing to undergo who had love as well as glory incomparably greater than Joseph's! "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink-offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon, and called the name of the place where God spake with him Beth-el." Now Reuben being the oldest brother would be then the one who would be most responsible. He appears as Almighty God (El-Shaddai) to Abraham: so He is also revealed as the Almighty to Jacob; but I am not aware that He is ever represented as formally proclaiming Himself in this way to Isaac. "I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The sleeveless coats were worn by the laborers and the rulers wore the coats with sleeves, because the coat with sleeves you really couldn't do much work in those. Secondly, one who speaks of others so scornfully as this writer ought not to have exposed himself to the charge of such ignorance as confounding "the peoples" or nations with the people or tribes of Israel. On this occasion, then, Jacob pronounces the blessing the superior blessing on the younger of the two boys; and this too in terms which one may safely say, were equal to so extraordinary a conjuncture, in terms which none but the Spirit of God could have enabled any mouth to utter. "The brothers hate is therefore a rebellion against the matter contained in the dreams, against the divine power itself, standing behind them, who had given the dreams. God had already affirmed the principle of His choice in the son of the free woman Sarah, when the child of the flesh was set aside. Then we come to the crisis of sorrows for the Jew. And so seeing that these guys were really serious in their intention to kill him, he felt that it was his responsibility to save him from their anger. Esau receives him with every appearance of generous affection, refusing but at length receiving his gifts. It has the form of a prediction; but it is a vaticinium post eventum. And as I have pointed out in the book of Revelation, if the woman is the church, she's in serious trouble because she's pregnant and just about ready to have a child. I call your attention to it as an interesting fact, as well as an instance of the profoundly typical character of the Scriptures. "And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him." (Genesis 40:1-23) They too have their dreams to tell. To try to give to the woman any other identity is to speculate only and it's unscriptural speculation. There never was a man who saw more brightly than Joseph; but Jacob, dying, sees the future with steadier and fuller gaze than the most famous interpreter of dreams and visions since the world began. "He journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth And Jacob came to Shalem,* a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. His heart is out of the scene where it enjoyed but a transient and at best typical glory. From that point all is changed. Now the governmental dealings of God begin to appear, and Jacob is the standing type of the people of God not walking in communion with God like Abraham, and consequently the first type of a pilgrim and of a worshipper too; not as the son, risen from the dead and in the heavenly land, but an outcast; forced to be, if a pilgrim, a pilgrim against his will in the government of God, and consequently the most apt possible type of Israel, for unfaithfulness expelled from their own land, passing under corrective discipline, but blessed at last with rest and joy here below. For they only were substitutional, as the very verse in which they occur implies. c. O LORD God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day : As Abraham's servant arrived at his master's ancestral city, he first had a practical . So we shall find it was with Jacob. "To him shall the gathering of the peoples be;" and so certainly it will be, but not yet. "We'll thwart really the plan of God. Then follows the genealogy of Jacob's sons; and the long-delayed last sight of Isaac at Hebron, where he dies at the age of 180 years, and was buried by his sons Esau and Jacob. Unbelief sets out with the foregone conclusion that there is and can be no such thing. It was in no way the homage of one who regarded God according to His own being and majesty. And Abimelech seeks his favour too; but Isaac remains always in the emblematic heavenly land, the type of Christ's present position. These are probably his daughters-in-law. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and . The focus of this pericope is deceit, which is a recurring feature of the Jacob and Joseph narratives. Captain of the guards. The guards are the executioners of the sentences passed by the sovereign on culprits, which were often arbitrary, summary, and extremely severe. But they with instinctive dislike and jealousy of what gave glory to their brother did not fail to make the detested application of his dreams. Now there never can be the spirit of worship till we delight in God for what He is Himself, not merely for what He has been to you or me. Here we have God either in His own abstract majesty as Elohim, or in special relationship as Jehovah the two forms in which God is spoken of. "They hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him." Israel under law broke the law, and was ever leaving Jehovah for Baalim; yet the sons would be no better, rather worse, than the father; but the grace of God would interfere for the generations to come as it had for their father Jacob, and the last day would be bright for them as in truth for him. Doth my father yet live? So the king felt at once, and his servants too in spite of the usual jealousy of a court. What is not the goodness of God? The believer is exposed to any evil when he ceases to be dependent, or yields to his own thoughts which are not of faith. 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. Reuben thought himself undone, because the child was sold: I, whither shall I go?Genesis 37:30; Genesis 37:30. He was reporting on them to their dad, and so that is surely going to bring resentment against Joseph, which of course it did. He is alarmed more than ever. There's only one thing that can remove your guilt. They cast him into a pit To perish there with hunger and cold; so cruel were their tender mercies. And thus the father wept for him ( Genesis 37:29-35 ). In both cases it is Elohim. And so he suggests an alternate plan. 2. 24 Then they took him and cast him into a pit. He recognizes his brethren. So Joseph would have had it; but not so Jacob. "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships, and his border shall be unto Zidon. God keeps His name in secret now. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. It was beautiful fruit in its season: no change of circumstances interfered with the promises of God to the fathers. It is a thorough moral restoration. And so it indicated more of an aristocracy, a rulership class. In fact, so far is it from the truth that we see the plainest facts in opposition to such a thought. And he was now older, matured and had no doubt the style of hair and beard and so forth as the Egyptians. He would not have left him to speak on his deathbed, like an Arab chief, of no higher blessings to his sons than rapine and murder, without the least reference to another and better state of existence on which he believed he should enter, and in relation to which he might counsel his sons to act continually. Perhaps Reuben wanted to get back in the good graces of his father (cf. On these they must be divinely corrected now; and so they were. And he was bringing their evil report to his dad. And that would seem to be a more accurate translation of this particular difficult Hebrew phrase. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. The long story of Joseph shows how God was directing events according to his preannounced purposes. Shocked at himself, but restored in soul, he finds himself through his affections in danger of fighting against the purpose of God. Such was Joseph's great distinctive trait. And that way you don't get your hands bloody. And what thoughts and feelings must have rushed through the old man's heart as he looked back on his own early days! But they were deceiving him. Such is the meaning of the combined types of Jacob's sons, Joseph and Benjamin Christ has nothing to do with the latter yet; He admirably answers to the type of Joseph, but not yet of Benjamin. But so it must always be where the heart is not established in grace; and Jacob's heart was far from it. This is what they do now seeking to make themselves happy, when, if they weigh their own prophets, they must suspect fatal error somewhere in their history. They were now pleased to think how they were freed from the fear of their brother's dominion over them, and that, on the contrary, they had turned the wheel upon him. Now Reuben evidently had gone off someplace while the brothers conspired to sell him. Here one may convey the scope without ceasing to be brief. And we said, We cannot go down. The holiness expected of the people of God was a total stranger to those murderous sons of Jacob. And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. Let those who are affected by such petty cavils weigh our Lord's giving Simon the name of Peter twice (John 1:42, Matthew 16:18), and the second time with yet more emphasis than the first. And as he was being carried away in this caravan, probably chained to the other slaves, looking back, pleading, crying, don't do this; and they didn't have any compassion upon him whatsoever. So Joseph was really begging them, pleading with them, no doubt crying. Be fruitful and multiply. This is brought out in the same chapter. We discern at once what remarkable maturity there was here. Conspired.] To the grave. Sheol is the place to which the soul departs at death. And so that's just thrown in there, it just-the scripture, verse two, is just thrown in there. The name of God does not appear, and his hand is at present only dimly seen among the wicked designs, deeds, and devices of these unnatural brothers. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it. Reuben is quick to feel, recalls the truth as far as he knew it about Joseph, and shows right feelings towards his father. There we have evidently a heart that has been brought right, exactly where the sin lay. Jacob indeed felt very differently. Dothan is said to remain to this day, and the inhabitants of it show the ancient ditch into which Joseph was cast (u). Genesis 37:2. Then Judah comes before us. It was the city of Nahor in this sense. A great force put upon conscience commonly stupifies it, and for the time deprives it both of sense and speech. In spite of their plan God kept Joseph alive and safe in Egypt. I admit fully that the grace of God does minister to our wants; but then it is to raise us above them and the sense of them, in order that we may freely and fully enjoy what God is, and not merely feel what He has done for us. But since that time of the King James translation and the discovery of more ancient records, it is now believed that this should have been translated "made him a sleeveless coat." In the following chapter follows the unveiling of the typical stranger, the glorified man, to his brethren, who up to this were wholly ignorant of him. We see the nature which left room for the mingled character which so evidently belonged to Jacob. JOSEPH IS HATED BY HIS BRETHREN AND SOLD INTO EGYPT With the exception of a few passages chiefly in Genesis 46, 49, the rest of the book of Genesis is taken from the Primitive source. Genesis chapter thirty-seven. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life. There was still not a little in him with which God had a controversy for Jacob's good, not without his humiliation. In the case of Leah (Genesis 29:1-35), who was hated compared with Rachel, Jehovah as such interposed with His special regard to her sorrow, and this was expressed in the name of her first-born son, Reuben; and His hearing in her second, Simeon. Is scepticism only certain that its own dreams are true, and that scripture is false? Hence mark the difference when Jehovah appears to Isaac. . In the case of Abraham appears the double figure: the children were to be as the stars of the sky, but also as the sands of the sea. Jacob now is not merely blessed, but a blesser. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. It is postponed, not lost. His brothers seeing him come conspired together to kill him. The sinew of: the thigh was caused to wither away. Jacob a sojourner with his father Isaac, who has yet living, v. 1. He asked the name of God, but this could not, consistently with His character, be revealed yet. After this we find the angels of God meeting Jacob. Guilt will out. And his suffering too was not merely outside: he suffered quite as keenly from his brethren. What is the value of Dr. D.'s denial of what Scripture positively affirms? Let him starve to death. And they said one to another, Hey, here comes the dreamer ( Genesis 37:13-19 ). There are many today who, in order to try to prove that the church is going to get through the Great Tribulation, identify the woman as the church. Video Genesis; Principle #60; Gen 38:1-30; p. 59 God's Sovereign Plan: We should keep our eyes on God's will for our lives when some Christians-even spiritual leaders . Those do not truly love their children that do not inure them to business, and labour, and mortification. And they said . And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. Now the connotation of a sleeveless coat was that of rulership. Do we not feel how far the hearts of all his brethren were from hating Joseph now because of Jacob's love to him! Hence the effort to destroy its only just and worthy sense. BEHOLD, THIS DREAMER COMES. 19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. He is a man evidently cared for by God. It should be borne in mind that there is no reason, but rather the contrary from scriptural usage for construing "at that time," of an isolated point of time, but rather of a general period, consisting as here of a number of events, the last and not the first of which might synchronize with the event recorded just before. And so going just a little bit ahead in the story, when Joseph became the ruler in Egypt and his brothers came down to buy grain, they did not recognize Joseph. The sheaves had not yet stood and bowed; the sun, moon, and stars had not paid obeisance yet; but all was to follow not long after. The long story of Joseph shows how God was directing events according to his preannounced purposes.Being the fathers favourite, Joseph was not popular with his ten older brothers. Una nueva jornada de intenso calor afecta a gran parte del pas, con marcas que superaron los 43 grados en algunas localidades "Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last." But as this is a matter of tolerably wide-spread knowledge amongst Christians, there is no need for much to be said about it. Then they would destroy the Canaanites and possess their land (see 15:13-16). (2.) But coming to Dothan, or coming to Shechem and not finding them, he was just sort of roaming in the field. You just let him die there in the pit." There is no patriarch on whom the Spirit of God dwells with greater delight; and among those who preceded Christ our Lord it may be questioned where one can find such a sufferer. For in the book of Revelation it goes into an allegorical type of references in the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation. 1. And some of them have, were dug in an area where there was a fracture in the rock and they would not hold water. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes." These, as is plain, were just the points in which they had broken down before. You know, tripping him and giving him an elbow now and then and all of those things that just really made life quite miserable for Joseph. Torn, torn in pieces is Joseph. The sight of the bloody coat convinces Jacob at once that Joseph has been devoured by a wild beast. O. T. i. Jacob accordingly goes out on his lonely way, and went to Padan-aram, and there it is that he dreams; and he beheld standing above the ladder Jehovah, who proclaims Himself to Jacob as the God of his fathers. and a future state of rewards and punishments (!) 2. The reason is clear: we are upon the ground where God meant us to appreciate the very peculiar dealings with him who sets forth the Bridegroom of the church. Genesis 37:23 Genesis 37:25. "And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. Joseph's brethren were wonderfully restrained from murdering him, and their selling him was as wonderfully turned to God's praise. We have here, before pursuing the history of Isaac to the end, an episode which brings before us the birth of the two sons of Isaac and Rebecca. For Isaac we find the heavenly places, a relationship past resurrection as far as this could be set forth in type. Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother. Identical names of places are not imposed twice." It was the occasion of his daughter Dinah's shame, as well as of her brother's cruel and deceitful vengeance, that brought trouble on Jacob, and caused him to stink among the inhabitants of the land, as Jacob so sorely confessed. But he started giving them a bad time. We find, accordingly, that first of all one of the brethren is taken, Simeon; and the charge is given that, above all, Benjamin should be brought down. They probably figured, "We're getting out of here. It's always hard to have a brother who is a nark. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. This did not hinder his beginning with the history of Israel from his own days. There was a difference in the mother, if not in the father. Nor the stuff of power from between his feet, And to him the obedience of the peoples be", But, first, the ruling position of Judah was not till but after he came to Shiloh. Joseph Sold by His Brothers - Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem, and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. The brethren that remained with Israel have yet to be accounted for; and the pressure of the famine is upon them. As long as He is simply filling up the type of Joseph, there is no knowledge of Himself on the part of his brethren. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?" He had served God in Egypt, but to him it was ever the strange land. Minister. This word originally means eunuch, and then, generally, any officer about the court or person of the sovereign. It is always so first that which is natural, afterwards that which is spiritual. For even as marvelous a person as Joseph was, his was not to be the blessing of having the Messiah come through him. His interpretation was soon verified. Probably trying to find a trail, looking for the footprints of the flocks and so forth and just going back and forth through the field trying to find the trail, trying to find out which direction they may have gone. "And a child of his old age, a little one." The long story of Joseph shows how God was directing events according to his preannounced purposes. It was bad to sell him for twenty pieces of silver, but this was not the full extent of the wrong; for the same cruel hearts which thus disposed of a holy and loving brother did not scruple to inflict the deadliest wound on their aged father. We believe that the time of the prophetic lyric falls under the kings. Genesis 35:22). including complete notes from the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible and the New Bible Commentary. But He too will cause the pinch of famine to press upon them. At length, when Laban's sons murmur and their father's countenance was not toward Jacob as before, Jehovah bids him return to the land of his fathers. The chief even. There was the unseen hand of God; but the power and the honour of God could not be righteously found in such a course. Reuben (it seems) had gone away from his brethren, when they sold Joseph, intending to come round some other way to the pit, and to help Joseph out of it, and return him safely to his father. "Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.". But Jehovah was with Joseph in the prison, just as much as in Potiphar's house. Jesus is the only "Faithful Witness." It is then accordingly we hear the cry coming forth, "I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah." And his brethren were content. What was realised in the facts of the history at last terminates in the blessedness the predicted blessedness of Israel. (1.) Note, God's providences often seem to contradict his purposes, even when they are serving them, and working at a distance towards the accomplishment of them. This table enumerates 32 of Leah, 16 of Zilpah, 11 of Rachel, 7 of Bilhah=66. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; and they sent the coat with long sleeves, and brought it to their father; and said, We found this coat: you know whether or not it is your son's coat. *It may be worth while to observe in this and other genealogies not often the object of infidel attack, that the differences between Genesis, Numbers' and Chronicles in their form are due to the motive for their introduction in each particular connection ; that the difficulties clearly spring from the design, in no way from error in the writer, but in fact because of ignorance in ouch readers as misapprehend them; and that both the difference and the difficulties are the strongest evidence of their truth and inspired character, for nothing would have been easier than to have assimilated their various forms and to have eliminated that which sounds strange to western ears. All will understand it who remember that we have had His death and resurrection parabolically in Genesis 22:1-24; and then, after the passing away of her who was the figure of the new covenant, come the entirely novel dealings of God in the call of the bride for the Son here carefully and exclusively connected with the type of heaven. How appropriate, therefore, for the type of the Jew driven out through his own fault, but under the mighty hand of God for government, but for good in His mercy at the end! And it came to pass, that when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. Simeon and Levi were as remarkable for the latter, as Reuben for the former a sorrowful vision for Jacob's heart to feel that this not only had been but was going to be; for undoubtedly he knew, as he says, that what he then uttered would sweep onward and befall the people "in the last days." He too will work in their hearts in consequence, that He may be made righteously known to them in due time. At the same time Jacob proves that his confidence was far from being restored. The result is that Joseph puts in execution a most solemn searching of the heart and conscience of his brethren. The good intention of Reuben is negated somewhat by the fact of his attempting to thwart evil by cunning, not by appealing to the Word of God. The sleeveless coat was the worker's coat, and so when his dad made him a coat with sleeves it was giving a definite message to his brothers of Jacob's intention of making Joseph the ruler. El SMN indic que hubo 16 provincias con temperaturas superiores a los 37 grados. Jacob the deceiver, deceiving his brother or actually deceiving his father to get his brother's blessing, ends up being deceived. 3 Y . Come, I am going to send you to them." "Very well," he replied. Joseph was no doubt torn in pieces and they let him jump to that conclusion and then let him believe it. Benjamin then is embraced by Joseph; and now there is no let to the accomplishment of the purpose of God for the restoration of Israel for this complete blessing where the reality comes under Christ and the new covenant. In the forty-second chapter, verse twenty-one, "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us" ( Genesis 42:21 ). He is still wandering still under corrective government. In Genesis 28:1-22 we have Jacob called by Isaac, and sent to Padan-Aram for a wife, with El-Shaddai's blessing on him. "And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. Because of Jacob and his love for Rachel, when Joseph was born he almost became immediately a favored son kind of a status. They made merry over him, as the persecutors over the two witnesses that had tormented them, Revelation 11:10. And He says, "Behold I am with thee, I will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of." And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. And no doubt Jacob indicated his favoritism towards Joseph all the way along. But. Did he fail to discern then how easily God could have crossed the hands of his father Isaac against his own will? He is as ever exclusively connected with what is heavenly as far as the figure goes. (Genesis 41:1-57) It was two years after a long while to wait, especially in a dungeon; but the chief butler, remembering his faults, and confessing them, tells his master of the young Hebrew in the prison, servant to the captain of the guard, who had interpreted so truly. 2 Esta es la historia de la familia de Jacob: Jos, siendo de edad de diecisiete aos, apacentaba las ovejas con sus hermanos; y el joven estaba con los hijos de Bilha y con los hijos de Zilpa, mujeres de su padre; e informaba Jos a su padre la mala fama de ellos. He being the eldest, his father would expect from him an account of Joseph; but, as it proved, they would all have been undone if he had not been sold. Nevertheless, from the first, entirely apart from any grounds such as to determine a preference, God shows that He will be sovereign. The passages are junior Elohistic, and Elohistic respectively. Isaac indeed speaks of Him as the Almighty when he blesses Jacob; but when God appears, Scripture describes Him simply as Elohim or as Jehovah. Jacob struggles all night that he might be blessed. They have lost their Messiah, and they court the world. Cain, Genesis 4:9). Even Judah's successful effort, later, to prevent Joseph's murder, was grounded not upon what was right or wrong, but upon what was expedient and profitable! The story proceeds: Joseph is sent to see the peace of his brethren, follows them to Dothan, and there the last errand of love brings out their deepest hatred. He ministers to Joseph dreams that shew the gracious purposes that were before Himself. Let's just sell him and we'll make money off of him. Now at this point, Jacob was really, I mean Joseph was really crying and pleading with his brothers that they would have mercy on him and all. We might have thought them incapable of anything that was good; and it is very evident that their hearts were now strewn to be under a most mighty power which forced them anew, as far as, of course, the type was concerned. There can be no restoration, no reconciliation, relief it is true, but no deliverance for Israel till Joseph and Benjamin are united. There was a need, in the wisdom of God, that the sovereignty should be affirmed still more expressly. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you; and they came near. The reason is manifest. Thus he goes on his journey; and among the children of the east ensues a characteristic scene, which need not be entered into in a detailed manner the providential introduction to his experiences with Laban and his family. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. Consequently what was merely of an earthly, passing, or dispensational nature is not brought forward. It is the sudden change from the energy of Satan to the heart looking up and out to Jehovah Himself. Now it is singular to hear, that Jacob says to his household and all that are with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments." Probably wondering just what is going to happen? Three things we may observe here concerning Abraham:-. It was indeed most significant of divine mercy; but of God's mercy in the dark, where there could not yet be communion. Rachel is at length remembered by God, who takes away her reproach by adding to her a son (Joseph) type of One glorified among the Gentiles and delivering His Jewish brethren after suffering among both Jews and Gentiles So her history closes in the death of her Benoni and Jacob's Benjamin son of the mother's sorrow and of the father's right hand, as the people of God will prove in the end. His eyes were dim with age, but he was in this clearer-sighted than Joseph after all. And his brothers were content ( Genesis 37:25-27 ). There God appeared again; and while He repeats the name of Israel instead of Jacob, He reveals Himself as God Almighty, El-Shaddai. Of course, some twenty years had transpired. But the consciences of Joseph's brethren, though asleep now, were roused long afterwards, Genesis 42:21; Genesis 42:21. Though he dwelt there, ruled there, there had a family, and there died fuller of honours than of years, an hundred and ten years old, he feels that Egypt is not the land of God, and knows that He will redeem His people from it, and bring them into Canaan. It mattered little where he was, since Jehovah was with him. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. A reason for the change does not necessarily accompany its record. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us, seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life, it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants shall bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave; for thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. If you would like to know how we handle complaints, please click here Learn more about Product . While surely included in fact like his father and son in such a revelation of El-Shaddai, Isaac has an altogether peculiar place in the record, not connected in the same way with the dispensations of God as either Abraham on the one hand, or Jacob on the other. Now chapter thirty-eight is just thrown in to give us a little bit of historic background concerning the ancestry of Jesus Christ. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. Even the father finds it trying, much as he loved him; for Joseph has another dream, in which the sun and moon, as well as eleven stars, made obeisance to him; and Jacob felt but observed the saying. We see here the enemy in the serpent that bites, and the consequent disaster to the horseman. Joseph taken to Egypt (37:1-36) God had told Abraham that his descendants would become slaves in a foreign land, and would remain there till Canaan was ready for judgment. If the chief butler forgot Joseph in his prosperity, God did not. And later on in the book of Genesis, it tells how that his brothers when he was playing games with them in Egypt and putting pressure on them said, "You know, this is really our fault. In the case of Dan there is set forth the power of Satan (ver. You're not brothers; you've come down here to spy out Egypt. He would be the one that would be responsible to his dad for his youngest brother. But at length, when all were taken or sent over the ford Jabbok, comes another whom Jacob did not expect when left alone. But there is another genealogy (Genesis 36:1-43), and strikingly introduced in this place. He said you guys are spies. So surely Joseph nor his father had any idea that the brothers' hatred had grown to this extent; else his father would have never sent him. And he was intending to come back around later and to let Joseph out of the pit and deliver him back safe to his father. And you can imagine all of the things that they did to antagonize him and to torment him. In the next chapter (Genesis 33:1-20) the meeting takes place. See what happens to God's plan after we kill him". But he is suggesting that they again not actually kill him. There was nothing farther from the desire of Jacob. But there was this difference. He erected no doubt an altar. In Genesis 39:1-23 Joseph is seen in the land of Egypt, for there the Midianites sold him. Thus, in imagination, they degraded him from the birthright, of which perhaps this was the badge, grieving him, affronting their father, and making themselves sport, while they insulted over him. (2.) Hence, therefore, this became the great question how to bring down Benjamin how to put him into connection with Joseph. If it was a glorious moment in Abraham's history, it was especially gracious in God's ways with Jacob. O. T. pp. But it is well to remark, though it has been often noticed, that it is not set forth to the honour of Jacob that he wrestled with the man, for it was rather the man, or God Himself, who wrestled with him. Let's sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. All was changed from this point. But the very hand which touched the seat of natural strength imparted a strength from above; and Jacob on this occasion has a new name given to him. Let us bear in mind that it is the account of the risen Son. He sets to work in his own way. (Genesis 30:1-43). They could actually make some money off of him. The choice was true, but not the hatred. And Paul speaks of the church as a chaste virgin and he wanted to present the church as a chaste virgin unto Christ, certainly not as a pregnant mother. They sold him. 65, 66), in his arguments against unity of authorship on the score of diversities, confusedness, and contradictions, alleges this: "In like manner Jacob's name was changed to Israel, when he wrestled with a supernatural being in human form all night before he met his brother Esau, on his return from Mesopotamia (Genesis 32:28); whereas according toGenesis 35:10; Genesis 35:10 he received the name on another occasion at Bethel, not Penuel, as the first passage states. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible. Reuben said unto them, Don't shed blood, let's just throw him in this pit that is here in the wilderness, and don't lay any hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again ( Genesis 37:21-22 ). "And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob." Though he was his father's darling, yet he was not brought up in idleness or delicacy. How admirably this suits the position of Christ as the risen Bridegroom will be too plain to call for further proof. They may have wanted to alter the will of God as revealed in Josephs dreams as well. It also shows the lot of Christians, who must through many tribulations enter into the kingdom. 37 Habit Jacob en la tierra donde haba morado su padre, en la tierra de Canan. GENESIS 37:23-25 23 So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. We explain the tenth verse in such a manner as to imply that David was king over the tribes, and had humbled their enemies." We shall never be at home, till we come to heaven. Is it too much to say that the excuse was not thoroughly truthful? More particularly we see how the very ones who had so shamefully failed are now distinctly brought into communion with God's mind about their ways. 25 And they sat down to eat a meal. Objectors have failed to take into account the peculiarity in the mention of Hezron and Hamul in verse 12. belonging to, Jacob. So it strains the interpretation of the church that much trying to make the woman in Revelation the church; it strains it that much more. They let the old man come to his own conclusions. In Genesis 48:1-22 tidings of Jacob's sickness brings Joseph and his two sons to the bed of the patriarch. He had been exalted in Egypt, but he solemnly took an oath of the sons of Israel, that when God visits them, as He surely will, they will carry up his bones hence. And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brethren feed the flock in Shechem? Notice the sons didn't say anything about it. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? The next chapter (Genesis 27:1-46) lets us into the sight of circumstances which searched the heart of all concerned. These are the two main outlines of Joseph's history a more than usually meet type of Christ, in that he shone above all his fellows for unsullied integrity of heart under-the several trials. Then comes another wonderful working of God. Reuben is the starting-point, and alas! Here he is not met by a host of angels, nor does the mysterious stranger wrestle in the darkness of the night, crippling him in the might of nature, and making the weak to be strong. Here again, we have another interruption; but never allow for a moment that anything is not perfect in the word of God. Jacob comes down at length, and on his way God speaks to Israel "in the visions of the night; and said, Jacob, Jacob; and he said, Here am I. Genesis 37:24-25. And it was of the deeper interest too, as one of them (Hezron) stands in the direct line of the Messiah, which was, as it appears to me, one chief reason for introducing the details of Judah's history and its shame in Genesis 38:1-30.. In this chapter begins the history of Joseph, with whom the remaining part of this book is chiefly concerned; and here are related the hatred of his brethren to him, because he brought an ill report of them to his father, and because his father loved him, and which was increased by the dream he dreamed . It is the more absurd in the case of Jacob changed to Israel and then confirmed, because the usual plea of Jehovah and Elohim does not apply here. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. 1. Verses 18-24 "And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. and they took him and cast him into a pit. But in order that He might be fully identified with each of us, God did not choose a perfect lineage to bring Him from, but imperfect in order that we might feel an identity. It is Christ rejected but exalted on high, and taking the character also of the man of power for dealing with the earth. 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