Joseph: King of Egypt
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If the bible story of Joseph has relevance to you, or you want to learn more about the people involved, then this book is for you. Based on the original Bible version but enlivened with much more human detail, this book brings the characters to life. Meet Joseph, the slightly spoiled but clever younger son of Jacob, and see why his brothers dislike him. read about Simeon, one of the older brothers, a mighty but brutal man who would rather sell his brother into slavery than put up with hearing about his dreams. Joseph's forced trip to Egypt is eventually seen to be a plan set up by God, to rescue the fledgling Israelite nation from a dire famine. These and many other events make for an interesting read.
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Joseph - Richard Baker
Joseph
King of Egypt
Copyright 2016 Richard Baker
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Jacob and Esau
Chapter 2 - The Visions of Joseph
Chapter 3 - Joseph searches for his brothers
Chapter 4 - Left in a pit
Chapter 5 - Sold as a slave
Chapter 6 - Sold again!
Chapter 7 - City of Memphis
Chapter 8 - Sold to Potiphar
Chapter 9 - Trouble with Potiphars wife
Chapter 10 - Life in prison
Chapter 11 - The King has a vision
Chapter 12 - Joseph impresses King Apophis
Chapter 13 - Promoted to Commander of Egypt
Chapter 14 - Gets married
Chapter 15 - Seven years of good fortune
Chapter 16 - The famine
Chapter 17 - Joseph's brothers in Egypt
Chapter 18 - Simeon in detention
Chapter 19 - Return to Egypt
Chapter 20 - They are tested
Chapter 21 - Jacob heads for Egypt
Chapter 22 - Joyous family meeting
Chapter 23 - The famine ends
Chapter 24 - End of the journey
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Acknowledgements
My sincere thanks to my wife, for her unending love and patience. She has endured more travel and life events than could be expected, yet she remains strong and true.
She is also a notable artist, and graciously allows me to use her images for the covers of my books.
Also many thanks to Professor and Pastor David Munk, who proof read the manuscript, and was available for many questions and discussions.
Prologue
This book, as well as the Elijah booklet, was the result of mild frustration with the lack of human detail in most of the stories in the Bible. The big events are there, but not the small things that humans find interesting.
The major events, time line, distances and people are all biblically correct. The details are the result of much research into the lives of people in the time of the Pharoahs, as well as many ideas and descriptions of events found only in the writings of Josephus (a Roman historian), the Apochrypha, the Lost Books of the Bible, and the books of Jasher.
Chapter 1
Jacob was a man blessed by God. He had not always thought so, and indeed had resisted God many times. Or had not trusted Him fully. Anyway. Jacob came from a family who did not easily depend on others, or even have much faith in the ability of others to help in troubled times. Now he sat in a comfortable chair, on the flat roof of his large home, as was the custom on a warm summer evening. He thoughtfully selected a juicy fig from the bowl of fruit that his youngest son Benjamin had placed on the small table beside his chair. A fine boy, that Benjamin!
he thought contentedly. Jacob was well satisfied, sitting there in the cool of the evening, and his thoughts drifted back to days long gone.
Jacob and his brother Esau had been born to their parents Isaac and Rebekah in the land of Canaan, so although his grandfather Abraham had been a stranger in Canaan, an immigrant, Jacob and Esau were reckoned to be natives of Canaan, even though they had no Canaanite blood in their veins.
Jacob had often thought it strange that God (as Abraham had told him) had promised that Abraham's seed would become large, even founding a nation for God, yet here they were, still in Canaan. Oh well, what God promised, God provided, so no doubt things would become clearer later on. Jacob thought that he personally had done his best, having sired twelve sons and a daughter, and God had confirmed the Covenant of Abraham when Jacob had that dream on the road to Haran. That had been such a dream! So clear, that he knew it was the Lord God speaking to him. God had said that Jacob’s descendants would be like the dust of the earth, and He would give them the land on which he lay, and He would protect Jacob, and bring him back to this land, as He had promised. Well, so far God had done all that, and more!
When he and his mother had pulled off that great stunt with his father Isaac, getting Isaac to give him, Jacob, the first son’s blessing, he had not known what to think. He had been really excited, and had not expected it to work, but the fine soft goat skin tied on his arm had actually made Isaac believe that he was blessing his other son, Esau. Esau was traditionally the first born, for although he and Jacob were twins, Esau had come from the womb first, with Jacob close behind, clutching his heel. Still, Jacob felt no remorse for the deception. He and Esau were totally different in their ways and thoughts. Both Jacob and Esau were physically strong, but Esau had always been the more dominant of the two. Jacob was more prudent, carefully assessing his actions and the consequences, but Esau was a massive, brooding man who excelled in physical pursuits. From an early age he was an accomplished hunter, much to their father’s delight. Isaac had often been the recipient of Esau’s prowess, enjoying many a good meal of venison, or rabbit, or wild fowl, which arrived slung across Esau’s broad shoulders. Esau had, however, so little concern for his traditional birthright that he had traded it for a mere bowl of lentil stew. Good stew, certainly, but not that good!
Still, it had resulted finally in bad feelings between himself and Esau. When Esau found out about the deception, he was at first disappointed, and had gone home to his Hittite wives, almost in a daze. Soon, though, he was really angry, and Jacob had often thought that his wives might have had something to do with that, and Esau’s decision to kill his brother Jacob. At that time Esau was their father’s favorite son, due in part to his providing Isaac with fresh game (which Isaac was very partial to), but Jacob was their mother Rebekah's favorite, and when she heard of Esau’s intention of killing Jacob she immediately suggested that Jacob leave for a while and visit the family in Mesopotamia, a good distance away. And while he was there he could find a wife for himself! He was, after all, almost fifty years old, and it was past time that he start his own family.
Rebekah quietly pestered Isaac to send Jacob to get