Bible lesson
Chapter 18: The Brothers before Joseph
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 18 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
Joseph’s brothers come from Canaan to buy food, and Joseph recognizes them but acts like a stranger and talks to them harshly. Later Judah asks to stay behind as a slave in place of the boy, and Joseph then reveals that he is their brother, the one they sold into Egypt.
From Genesis 42:7 (KoS), Genesis 44:18 (KoS), Genesis 44:33 (KoS), Genesis 45:4 (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
- 18
- Title
- The Brothers before Joseph
- Bible passages
- Genesis 42:1–45:28
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
He said, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us from there, so that we may live and not die.”
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 do the brothers say to one another about their guilt and the trouble they are in?
They said to one another, “Truly we are guilty because of our brother. We saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen. That is why this distress has come on us.”
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What does Judah promise his father about the boy, and what will he bear if he fails?
Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will get up and go, so that we may live and not die, we and you and our little ones. I myself will be surety for him. From my hand you may require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will bear the blame before you all my days.
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What does Joseph tell his brothers not to feel, and what reason does he give?
Now do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.