Thematic Bible: His father's favorite child
Thematic Bible
Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's favorite child
Moreover 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."
He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
Now 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. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)