Genesis 37:24

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Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

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  • Jer 38:6 : 6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
  • Lam 3:52-55 : 52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause. 53 They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.' 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Zech 9:11 : 11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause, they hid a pit for me; without reason, they dug a trap to capture my life.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry for help.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Ps 130:1-2 : 1 A song of ascents. From the depths I call to You, LORD. 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

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  • Gen 37:27-33
    7 verses
    78%

    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

    28When the Midianite merchants passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

    29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

    30He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"

    31Then they took Joseph's tunic, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

    32They sent the ornate tunic to their father and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."

    33He recognized it and said, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces."

  • Gen 37:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Reuben also said to them, "Do not shed any blood. Throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." He said this intending to rescue him from their hands in order to return him to his father.

    23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing.

  • Gen 37:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    17The man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

    18They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they conspired to kill him.

    19They said to one another, "Look, here comes the dreamer!"

    20Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a wild animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams."

  • Gen 37:25
    71%

    25As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm, and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

  • Gen 40:15
    71%

    15For I was forcibly taken from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in this pit.

  • Gen 44:1-2
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    1Joseph instructed the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the opening of his sack."

    2"Then put my silver cup in the opening of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." And he did as Joseph had instructed.

  • Jer 38:6
    70%

    6So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

  • Jer 41:7
    70%

    7But when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

  • Gen 37:36
    70%

    36Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard.

  • Gen 39:1
    70%

    1Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

  • Gen 39:20
    70%

    20So Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison where the king's prisoners were held, and he remained there.

  • Ps 105:17
    70%

    17He sent a man ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

  • Gen 42:23
    69%

    23They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

  • Gen 42:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bundle of silver. When they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were frightened.

    36Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

  • Ezek 19:4
    69%

    4The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They captured him with hooks and brought him to the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 37:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

    5One time Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

  • Gen 29:3
    69%

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

  • Gen 42:17
    69%

    17And he put them all into custody for three days.

  • Gen 44:11
    69%

    11Each of the men quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

  • Jer 14:3
    68%

    3The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads.

  • Gen 37:12
    68%

    12Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.