Joseph’s Brothers Plot His Death. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. Gen 37:19-20
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAME10NT
II. GOD AND THE CHOSEN FAMILY, Genesis 12-50
3. The History of Jacob’s Sons, Joseph and His Brothers
(1) Joseph Sold into Egypt, Genesis 37:1-36
67. How did Joseph’s treatment by his brothers typify men’s treatment of Christ?
JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS
And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
nd they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
JOSEPH’S BROTHERS PLOT HIS DEATH
Throughout Joseph was a very remarkable type of our Lord. There was, first, this mission of the beloved son to inquire after the well-being of his brethren, which reminds us so vividly of the advent of God’s Beloved and Only Begotten Son, who brought us the Father’s greeting, and came to see and know by personal inquiry how we fared. Dothan was in the northern portion of the land, and the journey must have taken time and strength; but he persisted until he found them, and came where they were. Their plot against their helpless brother was as the plot of Caiaphas and the rest against our Lord. Pilate knew that for envy they had delivered him into his hands. The pit was one of those rock-hewn cisterns that abound in Palestine, and as there was no water in it Joseph’s life was not sacrificed; and there he awaited what was a kind of resurrection. The scene at the pit’s mouth was recalled by Joseph in Gen_42:9; and was never forgotten by the others, Gen_42:21-22.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
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Genesis 37:12-24
II. THE PATRIARCHS OF ISRAEL (Chaps. 12-50)
D. Joseph (37:1–50:26)
1. Joseph Sold into Slavery (Chap. 37)
37:1-17 The words “This is the history of Jacob” seem abrupt. Jacob’s history (chaps. 25-35) is interrupted by the generations of Esau (chap. 36), then continued from chapter 37 to the end of the book, with emphasis on Jacob’s son, Joseph.
Joseph is one of the most beautiful types (symbols) of the Lord Jesus Christ in the OT, though the Bible never labels him as a type. A. W. Pink lists 101 correspondences between Joseph and Jesus, and Ada Habershon lists 121. For example, Joseph was loved by his father (v. 3); he rebuked the sin of his brothers (v. 2); he was hated by his brothers and sold into the hands of enemies (vv. 4, 26-28); he was punished unjustly (chap. 39); he was exalted and became the savior of the world, for all the world had to come to him for bread (Gen_41:57); he received a Gentile bride during his rejection by his brethren (Gen_41:45).
The tunic of many colors (or a long robe with sleeves, RSV) was a sign of his father’s special affection, and it stirred up the jealous hatred of his brothers. In Joseph’s first dream, eleven sheaves of grain bowed down to the twelfth sheaf, a prophecy that his brothers would one day bow down to him. In the next dream, the sun, moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to Joseph. The sun and moon represented Jacob and Leah (Rachel had died), and the eleven stars were Joseph’s brothers (vv. 9-11).
37:18-28 When Joseph was sent on an errand to his brothers, they conspired . . . to kill him, but at Reuben’s suggestion they agreed to cast him into a pit near Dothan. As they sat down to eat, they saw a company of Ishmaelites bound for Egypt, and at Judah’s suggestion decided to sell him. In this passage, the Ishmaelites are also called Midianites, as in Jdg_8:22-24. As the Midianite traders passed by, Joseph’s brothers brought Joseph out of the pit and sold him to the traders.
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