Bible Cross References
the Midianites
Genesis 37:28
and when some Midianite traders came by, the brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 25:2
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 39:1
Now the Ishmaelites had taken Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, one of the king's officers, who was the captain of the palace guard.
officer
Esther 1:10
On the seventh day of his banquet the king was drinking and feeling happy, so he called in the seven eunuchs who were his personal servants, Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas.
Isaiah 56:3
A foreigner who has joined the LORD's people should not say, "The LORD will not let me worship with his people." A man who has been castrated should never think that because he cannot have children, he can never be part of God's people.
captain
Genesis 39:1-23
1
Now the Ishmaelites had taken Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, one of the king's officers, who was the captain of the palace guard.
2
The LORD was with Joseph and made him successful. He lived in the house of his Egyptian master,
3
who saw that the LORD was with Joseph and had made him successful in everything he did.
4
Potiphar was pleased with him and made him his personal servant; so he put him in charge of his house and everything he owned.
5
From then on, because of Joseph the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian and everything that he had in his house and in his fields.
6
Potiphar turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph and did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Joseph was well-built and good-looking,
7
and after a while his master's wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her.
8
He refused and said to her, "Look, my master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has.
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I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?"
10
Although she asked Joseph day after day, he would not go to bed with her.
11
But one day when Joseph went into the house to do his work, none of the house servants was there.
12
She caught him by his robe and said, "Come to bed with me." But he escaped and ran outside, leaving his robe in her hand.
13
When she saw that he had left his robe and had run out of the house,
14
she called to her house servants and said, "Look at this! This Hebrew that my husband brought to the house is insulting us. He came into my room and tried to rape me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
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When he heard me scream, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me."
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She kept his robe with her until Joseph's master came home.
17
Then she told him the same story: "That Hebrew slave that you brought here came into my room and insulted me.
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But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me."
19
Joseph's master was furious
20
and had Joseph arrested and put in the prison where the king's prisoners were kept, and there he stayed.
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But the LORD was with Joseph and blessed him, so that the jailer was pleased with him.
22
He put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and made him responsible for everything that was done in the prison.
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The jailer did not have to look after anything for which Joseph was responsible, because the LORD was with Joseph and made him succeed in everything he did.
Genesis 40:4
They spent a long time in prison, and the captain assigned Joseph as their servant.
2 Kings 25:8
On the seventh day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.