Bible lesson
Chapter 17: Prison and the Palace
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 17 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
Yahweh is with Joseph in prison and makes the prison warden look on him with favor. Later Joseph tells Pharaoh that his dream means seven good years followed by seven years of famine, and Pharaoh puts him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.
From Genesis 39:21 (KoS), Genesis 41:25 (KoS), Genesis 41:26–27 (KoS), Genesis 41:41 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 17
- Title
- Prison and the Palace
- Bible passages
- Genesis 39:1–41:57
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. He was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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What reasons does Joseph give his master’s wife for refusing her?
He is not greater in this house than I am. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do this great evil and sin against God?”
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After explaining the cupbearer’s dream, what does Joseph ask him to do?
But remember me when it goes well for you. Do me this loyalty, please, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
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When all Egypt is hungry and asks Pharaoh for bread, what does he tell them?
When all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all Egypt, “Go to Joseph. Do what he tells you.”
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