Bible History - Old Testament

- 125- Rachel's grave was a landmark at the time of Samuel. (1 Samuel 10:2, 3) Another crime yet stained the family of Jacob at ...

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- 127- CHAPTER 19: Joseph's Early Life - He is Sold by his Brethren into Slavery - Joseph in the House of Potiphar -Joseph in Pr ...

- 128- God, and "for good to them that love God, that are the called according to His purpose." The scriptural history of Joseph ...

- 129- It needed only an occasion to bring this state of feeling to an outbreak, and that came only too soon. It seems quite nat ...

- 130- But we are anticipating. No sooner did his brothers descry Joseph in the distance, than the murderous plan of getting rid ...

- 131- heights of his own Hebron, where, all unsuspecting, his father awaited the return of his favorite. To that home he was ne ...

- 132- prepared, outwardly and inwardly, for the position he was to occupy. The beauty which Joseph had inherited from his mothe ...

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- 134- CHAPTER 20: Joseph in Prison - The Dream of Pharaoh's Two Officers - The Dream of Pharaoh - Joseph's Exaltation - His Gov ...

- 135- dream that he once more waited upon his royal master; while the guilty conscience of the chief baker saw only birds of pr ...

- 136- Two other years now passed in prison - probably more dreary and, humanly speaking, more hopeless than those which had pre ...

- 137- and most learned, the most experienced in "magic," and the most venerable in the priesthood, that Pharaoh vainly related ...

- 138- He counseled the king to exact in the years of plenty a tax of one-fifth of the produce of the land, and to have it store ...

- 139- of life," and "the Revealer of secrets." The history of Joseph's administration may be traced in a few sentences. During ...

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- 142- CHAPTER 21: The Sons of Jacob arrive in Egypt to Buy Corn - Joseph Recognizes his Brothers - Imprisonment of Simeon - The ...

- 143- ascertained before he made himself known to them. Moreover, its reality must be tested by the severest trial to which the ...

- 144- of Joseph. This also must have contributed to remind them of their former wrong; and, for the first time, they avow to on ...