Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph.
Joseph wept, and the brothers fell before him offering to be his slaves. Joseph refused to stand in judgment of them and assured them that they were forgiven. He not only forgave them; he offered them kindness: " 'So then, don't be afraid. Joseph's brothers had sold him into slavery when he was a teen.
The Gospel of Mark (6:3) and the Gospel of Matthew (13:55–56) mention James, Joseph/Joses, Judas/Jude and Simon as brothers of Jesus, the son of Mary.
Joseph was thrown in jail because his owner's wife falsely accused him of attempted rape. It seems that Potiphar was duty bound to arrest Joseph on dubious charges. No witnesses. If his wife's words were true then Potiphar would have certainly had Joseph killed.
Joseph was the 11th of 12 sons. His little brother was Benjamin. Benjamin is the Joseph's youngest brother as we read in Genesis in Bible. Infact Joseph was one before the last which is Benjamin.
Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack. Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." And he did as Joseph said.
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us?
His brothers eventually took their revenge by selling Joseph as a slave to passing merchants. While Joseph was being taken to Egypt, his brothers faked his death by rubbing goat's blood into the multi-coloured coat. In Egypt, Joseph became a house servant to a rich, high-ranking Egyptian, Potiphar.
Joseph's father Jacob (also called Israel) favored him and gave Joseph the coat as a gift; as a result, he was envied by his brothers, who saw the special coat as an indication that Joseph would assume family leadership. He persuaded them instead to throw Joseph into a pit and secretly planned to rescue him later.
And there passed by Midianites, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.
His story is told in Genesis (37–50). Joseph, most beloved of Jacob's sons, is hated by his envious brothers. Angry and jealous of Jacob's gift to Joseph, a resplendent “coat of many colours,” the brothers seize him and sell him to a party of Ishmaelites, or Midianites, who carry him to Egypt.
But "in all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong" (1:22). The scene in heaven is repeated in chapter 2, as YHWH expresses pride in Job, and the Satan dismisses it: "Skin for skin!" -- cause a little hurt on the man, and he will curse you to your face.
What were the names of Joseph's sons?
Joseph is recorded in Genesis 50:20 as saying to his brothers, “You meant evil against me, but God used it for good.” What a story with great implications for our own lives. So many times, things come against us that seem evil- sometimes they are evil- and God is able to use them for good anyway.
Second dream: In Matthew 2:13, Joseph is warned to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt. Third dream: In Matthew 2:19–20, while in Egypt, Joseph is told that it is safe to go back to Israel.
At spot valuation of $17.06/oz (the closing price on Monday, December 12, 2016), 30 "pieces of silver" would be worth between $185 and $216 in present-day value (USD).
A shekel was first a unit of weight-very roughly 11 grams (0.39 oz)-and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees.
The Gospels describe Joseph as a "tekton," which traditionally has meant "carpenter," and it is assumed that Joseph taught his craft to Jesus in Nazareth. At this point, however, Joseph is never mentioned again by name in the Bible—although the story of Jesus in the temple includes a reference to "both his parents."
Judas then went on his own to the priests of the Temple, the religious authorities at the time, and offered to betray Jesus in exchange for money—30 pieces of silver, as specified in the Gospel of Matthew.
an ancient, originally Babylonian, unit of weight, of varying value, taken as equal to the fiftieth or the sixtieth part of a mina or to about a quarter to half an ounce. a coin of this weight, especially the chief silver coin of the ancient Hebrews. shekels, Slang.
The Midianites traditionally have been identified as Ishmaelites, in part because of an unclear passage in Genesis (37:28) that refers to the traders to whom Joseph was sold by his brothers as both Midianites and Ishmaelites.
