Genesis 40:2

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Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, the cupbearer and the baker,

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:14 : 14 A king’s wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.
  • Prov 19:12 : 12 A king’s wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  • Prov 19:19 : 19 A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • Acts 12:20 : 20 Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king’s personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country’s food supply was provided by the king’s country.
  • 1 Chr 27:27 : 27 Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards;Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the wine stored in the vineyards.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Certainly your angry judgment upon men will bring you praise; you reveal your anger in full measure.

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  • Gen 40:1
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    1The Cupbearer and the Baker After these things happened, the cupbearer to the king of Egypt and the royal baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:8-11
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    8In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

    9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh,“Today I recall my failures.

    10Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards– me and the chief baker.

    11We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

  • Gen 40:3-5
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    3so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

    4The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.

    5Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man’s dream had its own meaning.

  • Gen 40:20-23
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    20On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He“lifted up” the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

    21He restored the chief cupbearer to his former position so that he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,

    22but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted.

    23But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph– he forgot him.

  • Gen 40:15-17
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    15for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

    16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph,“I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

    17In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.”

  • Gen 40:7
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    7So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house,“Why do you look so sad today?”

  • Gen 39:19-20
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    19When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.

    20Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

  • Gen 40:13
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    13In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

  • Gen 37:36
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    36Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

  • Gen 40:9
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    9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph:“In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.

  • Gen 41:1
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    1Joseph’s Rise to Power At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

  • Gen 40:11
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    11Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

  • Gen 39:22
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    22The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing.

  • Gen 41:43
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    43Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him,“Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:40-41
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    40You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

    41“See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”

  • Gen 39:1
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    1Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

  • Acts 7:10
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    10and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

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    18Then Judah approached him and said,“My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

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    6That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people: