Genesis 45:16

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Summary

And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

It pleased pharaoh well

General references

Genesis 46:31

Bible References

It pleased pharaoh well

But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her.” So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.

So Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.”

Their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and his son Shechem,

So now let Pharaoh [prepare ahead and] look for a man discerning and clear-headed and wise, and set him [in charge] over the land of Egypt [as governor under Pharaoh].

who went before you along the way, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to seek a place for you to make camp and to show you the way in which you should go.

And all the people took notice of it and it pleased them, just as everything that the king did pleased all the people.

Thus the [decision to set a] new time pleased the king and the entire assembly.

This statement (advice) pleased the king and the officials, and the king did what Memucan proposed.

Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen in place of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did accordingly.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully to the banquet with the king.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

The suggestion pleased the whole congregation; and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith [in Christ Jesus], and [filled with and led by] the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas (Nikolaos), a proselyte (Gentile convert) from Antioch.

General references

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;