Bible lesson
Chapter 19: Jacob’s Household Goes Down to Egypt
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 19 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
In a night vision, God tells Israel he need not fear going down to Egypt, and later Joseph meets his father in Goshen and weeps on his neck. Pharaoh lets the family live in Goshen, and when Israel is near death, he asks Joseph not to bury him in Egypt.
From Genesis 46:2–3 (KoS), Genesis 46:29 (KoS), Genesis 47:6 (KoS), Genesis 47:29 (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
- 19
- Title
- Jacob’s Household Goes Down to Egypt
- Bible passages
- Genesis 46:1–46:7; Genesis 46:28–47:31
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
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 three promises are made to Jacob in this verse about Egypt and about Joseph?
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
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How does Jacob describe the years of his life to Pharaoh, and how does he compare them with his fathers’ years?
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
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What do the people ask Joseph to buy, and what do they ask him to give them?
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our ground? Buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and so that the ground is not desolate.”
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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.