Thematic Bible: His father's favorite child


Thematic Bible



And I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And he put the slave women and their children first, and Leah and her children afterward, and Rachel and Joseph last.

And all his sons, and all his daughters, rose up to comfort him. But he refused to be comforted. And he said, For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet. And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

Then He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

For Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him came the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph's);