Genesis 37:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

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  • Gen 37:4 : 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
  • Gen 49:26 : 26 The blessings of your father Have prevailed above the blessings of the ancient mountains, Above the bounty of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
  • Ps 2:3-6 : 3 "Let's break their bonds apart, And cast away their cords from us." 4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. 5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath: 6 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."
  • Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
  • Luke 20:17 : 17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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  • Gen 37:3-7
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    3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

    4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

    5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

    6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

    7for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

  • Gen 37:9-12
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    9He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

    10He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

    11His brothers envied him; but his father kept this saying in mind.

    12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 37:16-20
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    16He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

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

    18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

    19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 50:15
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    15When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

  • Gen 42:6-9
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    6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

    7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

    8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

    9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

  • Gen 44:7
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    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • Gen 50:18
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    18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 37:23
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    23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

  • Gen 44:15
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    15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Gen 27:40-41
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    40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

    41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

  • Gen 40:8
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    8They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

  • Gen 43:6
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    6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

  • Gen 48:19
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    19His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand."

  • Gen 41:11
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    11We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
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    2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)