The Time of the Judges

Famine in the land

Changing Locations

From Bethlehem in Judah

To Moab

Introduced to the Family

Elimelech

Naomi

Mahlon

Chilion

Of the Tribe of Judah

Husband died

Children Marry

Naomi’s Children die

10 years later

Woman left without her two sons and her husband

Going Back to Cali (nope to Bethlehem)

Arose to head back

With her daughters-in-law

Heard that the LORD 

Visited His People

Given them Food

Told her Daughters-in-law to go to their homes

Return to your mother’s house

Blessed them

Talks about the loss

Talks about her being a burden

Blesses them again in the LORD

LORD grant you rest

Find a new husband

They wept

Not Gone Be able to Do

Naomi retorts I am not the one (Why?)

No more children, thus no husbands

No husband for me (age)

Starting all over (if I marry and have sons will you wait for them)

Would you wait all that time

The hand of the LORD has gone out against me

The Split

They wept

Orpah Was Out

Ruth was a ride or die

Sister is gone, follow her

Back to her people

Back to her gods

Ruth’s Response

Don’t do this

Where you go I will go

You are my people

Your God is my God

We are in this together

Naomi saw her steadfastness and said no more

Back in Town Again (Back to Bethlehem)

Town stirred (She’s back)

She changed her own name

Mara - Bitter

Because how the Almighty has dealt with her

Went away Full

Came back empty

The LORD testified against me

The Almighty has brought calamity on me

The beginning of the barley harvest

Introduce Ourselves – Whatever you want to share

Season 2 of the Podcast

What we want to carry forward

What we want to leave behind

What are we covering in the first half of our second season

The Book of Ruth

What do we know about the Book of Ruth?

Final Thoughts

Sign Off

Joseph’s response to the death of his father

fell on his father’s face

wept over him

kissed him

Joseph commanded his servants to embalm his father (Israel)

The Timeline

40 days for the embalming process

70 days for the National Weeping 

Joseph spoke with Pharaoh once weeping was done

Told Pharaoh what his father wanted him to do

Pharaoh told him Go ahead

Large group traveled (It was a very great company)

All the servants of Pharaoh

Household of Israel

Joseph and his household

All the brothers and their households

Both chariots and horsemen

Reached the Threshing Floor

in Atad - beyond the Jordan

the very great company gave a very great grievous lamentation

7 days of mourning in Atad

Canaanites named the place based on the Lamentation of the Egyptians

His sons buried him as instructed

Then they returned

Joseph’s brothers have concerns (1 voice again)

Made something up to try and ensure there are no repercussions

please forgive their transgressions and their sin

because they did evil to you

Joseph wept - again??!!

Brothers - behold we are your servants, fell down before him

Joseph’s response

Am I in the place of God?

You meant evil, but God meant it for good

To bring about that many people should be kept alive

Proof is in the pudding (meaning out of bad situations)

I will provide for you and your little ones

Joseph remained in Egypt (all of Israel)

Joseph saw his sons (those not claimed by his father - Ephrim and Mannaseh)

Joseph reiterates that God will visit

bring them out of Egypt

bring them to the land that was promised

Joseph gives the command to carry his bones out of Egypt

Joseph died being 110 years old 

embalmed

put in a coffin in Egypt

Jacob called for his sons

Gather yourselves together

Tell them what shall happen to them in the future

The Expected Standing

Best that Jacob has to offer

Pre-Eminent

The Uno Reverse Card

Unstable as Water

Do not have Pre-eminence

The Reason You slept with my wife - see I Chronicles 5:1

Simeon and Levi ‘Blessed’ together

Out the Gate

weapons of violence are their swords

Nothing to do with them

Killed in Anger (Gen 34:25)

Hamstrung Oxen (shows their anger)

Cursed be their

anger - fierce

wrath - cruel

The Future

Division in Jacob

Scatter them in Israel

Longest in verses with Joseph’s Blessing

Out the Gate Good things

Your brothers shall praise you

Forearm on the neck of your enemies

Respect from his brothers

His rise to position

Growth from cub  

A Lion formidable, the mightiest beast (Prov. 30:30)

A Lion a sign of royalty as well (Rev. 5:5)

Taking prey as defeated enemies

Who dares disturb him as he is ready to attack

Ruler

Scepter shall not depart from him (Judah) - David (2 Sam. 7:8-16, Ps. 89:3-4)

Will possess the rulers staff, commanders mace

Until Tribute comes - David, Messiah, Both?

Peoples/Nations will listen and obey him

Wealth as indicated by wine and grapes

Not in order Leah’s sixth son, 10th overall

Callout out of where they would live, not a blessing or a curse

Not associated with their character

Bony but strong, able bodied, able to bear

Who is resting by their baggage or amongst the sheep (pens, burdens)

The resting place is good and pleasant

So to remain there they became servants to those who were not expelled from the land

A stand-offish tribe, or distant tribe, a tribe that may not look like it belongs, but we know that it does.

Dan will stand for the people in that tribe, just like any other tribe of Israel (Joshua 19:47, Judges 1:34-35)

The snake and viper references speaks to the tribes stature in battle or contending for their land

By the Road or along the way speak to the tribes cunning and caginess. (Judges 18:7,10,27)

Jacob offers a prayer - calls out salvation and will wait on the LORD.

Gad

Living transjordan they will be a group that has to constantly battle

They fight back with mobility and agility, they are able to switch and turn the tides.

Asher

All about the Food

Naphtali

This one is hard (hard to interpret)

Bottom line is there is prosperity with Naphtali.

The Longest in verses with Judah’s

Passage hard to translate

A bough as a branch 

A wild donkey

Joseph will prosper, be fruitful, branches or foal being prosperous, daughters running over fences, 

Attacked, hit, harassed,

Past, personal

We see Joseph’s Response

Bow Unmoved - like a calm sea

Hands made Agile - supple, quick moving

Joseph's response Sourced (Tells us about the LORD)

By the Hand of the Mighty One (Strength and Power)

This Mighty One Shepherds

This Mighty One is a Stone

Joseph’s blessing Sourced by

By the God of Your Father - God who helps

By the Almighty - The God who Blesses

Description of the Blessings

Of Heaven Above (Agricultural)

Of the Deep that crouches beneath (Agricultural)

Of the Breast and the Womb (Family)

The Extent of the Blessings

As Jacob was blessed so shall you

On the head of Joseph

The one who was set apart from His Brothers

Benjamin’s animal is a wolf

Described as ravenous 

Catching Prey

Dealing with the Spoils

Probably referring to the tribes fierceness in battle

Called the ‘twelve tribes of Israel’

They were blessed by their father

The father (Jacob) said it to them

Blessed each one with a blessing suitable to him

Last Command

I am to be gathered to my people

Gives the address

Notes the rights to that lot - Abraham brought it from Ephron as a burying place

Who else is there

Jacob breathes his last  

Jacob is ill (sick, unto death)

Joseph and his children go

Summoned his strength and sat up in bed

Jacob recounts God Almighty meeting him

Appeared at Luz in Canaan

Blessed him

‘I will make you fruitful and multiply you’

‘I will make of you a company of peoples’

‘I will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession’ 

Leaves out any reference that God gave to Him personally (Name Change, King from You)

Focus on the Future, Focus on God and His Blessings to His people

Not going to be in Egypt Forever (Sojourning as he always has)

Your sons are mine

Your two sons born in Egypt are mine

Shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon (legitimate sons)

They are heirs with land inheritance

Joseph is left out of a land inheritance (why?)

The children that you fathered after them are shall be yours (no other children identified)

Recounts the events of Rachel’s death

Jacob ‘sees’ Joseph’s son

Have to be in their 20s by now

Asks whose they are

Joseph replies they are mine (How does this follow what happened in the previous verses)

Jacob wants to bless them

Jacob saw above and now his eyes are dim so that he could not see

Jacob kisses and embraces Joseph’s sons

Jacob is grateful

Sees his son (Joseph)

Sees his grandsons (Joseph)

Israel Switched His Hand from where Joseph placed his sons

Ephraim (youngest) under the right hand

Manasseh (oldest) under the left hand

He blessed Joseph

The Blessor (Personal God)

God in whom my fathers walked (Abraham and Isaac)

My Shepherd all  my life even until now

The angel who redeemed me from all evil

The Blessing

Who - These Boys (Ephraim and Manasseh) - represent Joseph now

Let my name be carried on

Let the name of my fathers be carried on as well

Let them grow into a multitude

Bless (barak)

God endues with special power (God to Joseph’s Sons)

To Declare the object be endued with special power (Jacob to Joseph's Sons)

Joseph Noticed the Switch

Joseph Saw the hands ‘in the reverse’

It Displeased Him

Wanted to move his father’s hands

Jacob Refused

Jacob knew what he was doing (I know, my son, I know)

Manasseh (the oldest) will still become great and become a people

Ephraim (the youngest) will become greater and a multitude of nations

In doing this he put Ephraim before Manasseh

Jacob’s gift to Joseph

Knows his death is near

Tells Joseph that God will be with you

Tells Joseph that God will bring him again to the land of his fathers

Given something special to Joseph, not for his brothers

A mountain slope

Taken from the Amorites with his sword and his bow

Joseph introduces the family to Pharaoh

Representing the Family

5 men from among his brothers

Pharaoh speaks to the brothers

The storyline followed

Famine severity in Canaan (threatened livestock)

Came to sojourn asks to dwell

Pharaoh reiterates to Joseph

Brothers have come to you

Choice of the land

Settle in Goshen

Any people who can take care of my livestock?

Jacob meets Pharaoh

Joseph bring him in alone

Jacob Blesses Pharaoh (twice verses 7 and 10)

How old are you? 

130 Years

Years of sojourning

Few and evil have been the years

Not as old as my fathers 

They were sojourners also

Joseph settled his father and brothers

Gave them possession on a land in Egypt

The best land of Egypt

In the land of Ramses’s

As Pharaoh commanded

Joseph provided food as they needed

No food in all the land - new grain, nothing growing

Note the change in tense (is in v4, was in v13)

Canaan and the land of Egypt

All the money has been collected from the people (Egypt and Canaan)

Gave their livestock for food

Joseph is Josephing again

Authority is Pharaoh’s 

Providing the seed you wanted

What you will do with it

Keep the one-fifth party going

Thankful/Grateful - we agree

Put into law (statute)

Land of the priests is exempt from the law

Shifts back to Israel (nation)

Settles in Goshen

They gained possessions in the land

They were fruitful and multiplied in the land

17 years pass

Jacob is 147 years old

Time drew near that Israel must die

Called Joseph

A promise is requested and made

The promise

Do not bury me in Egypt

Bury me in the burying place

Promise accepted

Swear was accepted

Israel (Jacob) bowed himself upon the head of his bed

Israel is taking his journey

Leaving the land of Canaan

Leaving with all that he has (1)

Stops at Beersheba to offer sacrifices to God (a place familiar to him)

God speaks to Jacob in a visions of the night

More than one(?)

Not a dream but a vision

God called him twice (pay attention) only good response is here I am (I am available)

What God says in the vision

Identifies Himself - I am the God of your father Isaac

Offers Comfort - Do not be Afraid to go down to Egypt

Reminds of Promise - I will make you a great nation

Instills Confidence - I myself will go down with you to Egypt

Provides a Future - I will also bring you up again (go down to Egypt, go up out of Egypt)

Provides Relief - Joseph’s hand will close your eyes - that day that you did not think was coming, thought your favorite son had perished, but he will be by your side until the end of your days

They leave Beersheba

We are told like three times that everything came with them from Canaan

Sons of Israel carried, in the wagons that Jacob sent 

Jacob

Their Little Ones

Their Wives

Their Livestock

Their Goods

Narrator provides a note that these were all things they gained in Canaan

They came to Egypt

Jacob

All his offspring with him

His sons

His son’s sons

His daughters

His son’s daughters

All his offspring he brought with him to Egypt

Sons and Daughter of Leah - 33 persons

Reuben Jacob’s First born

Hanoch

Pallu

Herzon

Carmi

Simeon

Jemuel

Jamin

Ohad

Jachin

Zohar

Shaul (son of a Canaanite woman)

Levi

Gershon

Kohath

Merari

Judah

Er (died in Canaan)

Onan (died in Canaan)

Shelah

Perez

Herzon

Hamul

Zerah

Issachar

Tola

Puvah

Yob

Shimron

Zebulon

Sered

Elon

Jahleel

The lone daughter mentioned

Dinah (King Shechem)

Sons of Zilpah (Laban gave to his daughter Leah) - 16 persons

Gad

Ziphion

Haggi

Shuni

Ezbon

Eri

Arodi

Areli

Asher

Imnah

Ishvah

Ishvi

Beriah

Heber

Malchiel

Serah (their sister) 

Sons of Rachel - 14 persons

Joseph

Manasseh

Ephraim

Benjamin

Bela

Becher

Ashbel

Gera

Naaman

Ehi

Rosh

Muppim

Huppim

Ard

Sons of Bilhah (Laban gave to Rachel his daughter) - 7 persons

Dan

Hushim

Napthali

Jahzeel

Guni

Jezer

Shillem

Is the math mathin’ 

66 people total who came into Egypt (minus Joseph and his family and not including the son’s wives)

All the persons who came into Egypt were 70

Judah still in the lead - sent ahead to  Goshen

Joseph met them there - came through with the fresh whip

Joseph finally gets to see his father

Falls on his neck

Weeps on his neck for some time

Superpower engaged - Joseph starts planning

Planning/thinking ahead

Telling them what to say (notice that everyone has really been saying what Joseph tells them, or what Joseph tells them to say)

Knows the Egyptian culture

Knows his people are those who deal with livestock

I’vsh stood all I can stand and I can’t stands no more (Joseph)

Unable to control himself- unlike before when he could

kicked everyone out

He wept aloud (raise the voice, expression, he, weeping - 4 Hebrew words)

Revealed Himself (asked about his father) - Does he think they were telling a story

Brother’s Response (again as a group)

Unable to answer

Dismayed (shocked, scared) at his appearance

Joseph comforting his brothers

You Sold me into Egypt

Do not be distressed or angry with yourselves

Reviewing the intensity of the famine

5 years left

Neither Plowing nor harvest

God Sent Me Before You …

Responsibility is God’s (part of the overall plan or in spite of)

to preserve life

to preserve a remnant for you on earth

to keep alive for you many survivors

God Has Made Me (look at the absolutes)

A father to Pharaoh

Lord of all his house

ruler over all the land of Egypt

Hurry up and go tell my Dad

God installed me as Lord over all of Egypt (walk in it)

Come quickly

I’ve got a place already picked out for you

Not just you but you children and grandchildren

All your possessions

This will allow you to be close to me

This will allow me to provide for you (sustain you with food)

There are 5 years of the famine left

If you do this the you will not come to poverty (be impoverished)

It is me Joseph

You see, my brother benjamin sees

You see that I am speaking in our language

You see my reputation and importance in Egypt

You must tell my father of all you have seen

Finally embraces his brothers

First time he has been that close (maybe that is what the dinner table was about)

Then they talk, 

The Pharaoh heard the report (who keeps telling people stuff?)

Joseph’s brothers have come (they are in Egypt, he has brothers)

It pleased Pharaoh and his servants

Pharaoh gives orders to Joseph (the only one that could command Joseph)

There are 7 commands in verses 17-19

Joseph to his brothers

Do This, Load your beasts

Go Back to Canaan

Take your father

Come back

Eat the fat of the land

Pharaoh commanded Joseph

Take wagons from Egypt

Pharaoh’s promise to give the best land in Egypt

Pharaoh is waying to bring all the family back with them (wives and little one and household)

Let not your eye pity (have no concern) for your goods (equipment) - anything you leave behind

You have the best land in Egypt to settle in

Did as commanded - Sons of Israel (including Joseph)

Joseph (being Joseph) make sure all was thought through

Gave the brothers provisions for the journey

Gave a change of Clothes (necessity or nah?)

Benjamin racked up

5 changes of clothes

300 shekels of silver = 120 ozs or 3448.80 (20 shekels for Joseph when sold)

To Israel Joseph sent

10 donkeys loaded with good things of Egypt

10 female donkeys with grain, bread and provision for the return trip

Sent the brother on their way and told them not to quarrel (shake anything up, get excited)

The brother make the trip (including Simeon)

They collectively tell their father 

Joseph is still alive

He is ruler over all of Egypt

Jacob’s First Response

Did not trust what they were saying (believe them)

His heart became numb (turned cold metaphorically)

More information for Jacob

All the words of Joseph

He saw the wagons that Joseph had sent

Jacob’s Second Response

Jacob’s spirit is revived

It is enough (I have seen and heard enough)

Let’s roll (recognition of his old age)

Food (as much as they can carry)

Put their money back

Put my silver cup

Being Setup Again - Any difference this time

They just had a good dinner (And they drank and were merry with him)

Not treated harshly put in jail

Not holding Simeon (or any bother back)

They leave early in the morning, unsuspecting

They left with the donkeys they were worry about

Joseph tells his steward to catch up to them and accuse them

He practices divination (to seek and give omens, foretell) with this cup? - Could this be a reference to his interpretation of dreams?

Lord and servant talk again (They do not recognize it yet)

The attitude of the brothers (speaking as one unit)

They were probably really careful not to do anything on their own

They were not smart enough to check prior to leaving (money and cup)

The brothers double down

Who ever has it shall die

The other brothers will be your lord’s servants

Let it be as you say (what is meant by this)

Shall be a servant (my)?

Rest of you can go (selfishness)

Searched and Cup found on Benjamin

All were upset and returned with Benjamin

Note who has the lead role (When Judah and his brothers came to …)

The hay dream has officially come true (all the sheaths of hay bow down)

Will we serve you

Showing honor

Joseph accuses them again, method to the madness?

Judah the spokesperson again

Throws the brothers on the mercy of the “court”

All will take the fall, the “perpetrator and the brothers”

Joseph responds no, Benjamin stays and the other go (2nd offer)

Go back to your father (adding insult to injury)

Do we see a change in Judah from his dealings with Tamar?

Talks to ‘the man’ (Joseph) privately

Recaps the previous visit, with some additional information

The boy cannot leave his father

If he should leave his father, then his father will die

The recap is meant to do what, earn sympathy with ‘the man’

The brothers are actually sticking together

Judah continues the story with the part ‘the man’ does not know

How hard it was to get Benjamin to show up

The longing he has for Joseph

The importance of Benjamin to him

The hurt it will cause if any harm comes to him (You will bring my gray hairs down to sheol)

Judah notes what will happen if they return without Benjamin

He will die

What he said would happen (down to Sheol) will

Judah notes his role in this

Judah became a pledge for Benjamin

Judah will bear the blame 

Judah offers a remedy

Let me stay instead of the boy (interesting to illicit compassion for age)

Let the boy go back with his brothers

I can’t show my face without Benjamin

What would befall my Father (what evil)