Bible lesson
Chapter 20: Blessings, Burial, and What God Meant for Good
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 20 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
Israel crosses his hands so that his right hand rests on Ephraim, the younger son, and later asks to be buried with his fathers in the cave in Ephron’s field. After their father dies, Joseph’s brothers wonder whether he will repay them, but Joseph tells them that what they planned as harm, God planned for good.
From Genesis 48:14 (KoS), Genesis 49:29 (KoS), Genesis 50:15 (KoS), Genesis 50:20 (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
- 20
- Title
- Blessings, Burial, and What God Meant for Good
- Bible passages
- Genesis 48:1–48:22; Genesis 49:28–50:26
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
You planned harm against me. God planned it for good, in order to do as it is this day, to keep many people alive.
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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When Joseph’s father refuses, what does he say about the older brother and the younger brother?
His father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will be great. Even so, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a fullness of nations.”
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What does Joseph say his father made him swear, and what does he ask permission to do?
‘My father made me swear. He said, I am about to die. In the grave I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. Now please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return.’”
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What message do the brothers send to Joseph, and how does Joseph respond when they speak?
‘This is what you shall say to Joseph: Please forgive the crime of your brothers and their sin, for they did you harm.’ Now please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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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.