Whom did Pharaoh give to Joseph for his wife? Whose daughter was she? How did Joseph employ himself? Should not all who are placed in authority imitate Joseph's diligence and faithfulness? 46. How old was Joseph when he stood before Pharaoh? How old was he when he was sold by his brethren? How many years then had he been in Egypt, and most of that time in prison? 47. What came to pass in the seven plenteous years? What does this expression denote ? 48. How did Joseph preserve the abundance of food in the seven years of plenty? How did he place it for the convenience of the people? 49. What is said of the quantity of corn which he gathered? Why did he leave off numbering it? 50. How many sons had Joseph? Before what time were they born? 51. What did Joseph name the first-born? What is the meaning of this name? Why did Joseph give his son this name? 53, 54. When the seven years of plenty were ended, what came to pass? What is the meaning of dearth? Was the dearth in any other country but the land of Egypt? How did that land differ from the others? To whose wisdom, under God, was this owing? 55. To whom did the people cry for bread. when the land was famished? What is the meaning of famished? What did Pharaoh say to the Egyptians when they cried for bread? 56. What is said of the famine? Who gives to famishing souls the Bread of Life? Should not you then go to him immediately? LESSON XXIII. Genesis, Chap. xlii. verses 1-25. Joseph's Brethren go to buy Corn in Egypt? To what place did the people of all countries go to buy corn? Why did they go there? What is a famine? 1. When Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, what did he say to his sons? Why were they looking one upon another? Why must they get food from Egypt? 3. What did Joseph's brethren then do? How many of them went? 4. Which of his sons would not Jacob send? Why is Benjamin especially called Joseph's brother? Why did not Jacob send him? What, probably, made Jacob more fearful of sending Benjamin away? 5. Did any others in the land go to buy corn besides the sons of Israel? 6. Who was the governor? What did he do? When Joseph's brethren came, how did they show their respect for him? What was fulfilled by their doing this? What had Joseph's brethren said when he told them his dreams? Gen. xxxvii. 8?. What did they say afterwards, when they determined to kill him? Gen. xxxvii. 20. 7. When Joseph saw his brethren did he know them? How did he behave towards them? How did he speak to them? What is probably the reason that he treated them in this manner? What did he say to them? What did they answer? 8 Did Joseph's brethren know him? How long was it since they had sold him? What changes in Joseph's appearance would prevent their knowing him? Why should he more readily know them? 9. What did Joseph then remember? What did he call his brethren? What are spies? What did he tell them they came for? What did Joseph mean by the nakedness of the land? Did Joseph really believe them to be spies ? 10. How did they answer him? Were not Joseph's dreams again verified in their man. ner of speaking to him? 11. Whom did they tell him they were? What did they say they were? 12. What did Joseph persist in saying of them? 13. How many brethren did they then tell him they were? Whose sons? Where did they say the youngest brother was? What did they say of one of their number? Did not Joseph know that he was meant? 14. What did he still charge them with? 15. How did Joseph say their words should be proved? By what did Joseph swear? Was this right? Repeat James v. 12? When you read of the sins of good men, what effect should it have upon you? 16. What did he direct them to do? Where should the rest be kept in the mean time? 17. What did Joseph then do with them? What is meant by putting them in ward? How long were they confined? 18. What did Joseph say to them on the third day? How will the fear of God lead us to act on all occasions? What is said of the wicked in Rom. iii. 18? 19. What did Joseph next propose as a proof whether they were true men? Why did he keep one of them there? 20. Whom did he tell them to bring to him? Did they consent to this? 21. What did they say one to another? Of whom were they speaking? 22. How did Reuben answer them? Had not Reuben indeed spoken thus to them? What does sin always bring? 23. Did Joseph's brethren know that he understood what they were saying? Why did they suppose that he did not understand them? Why did Joseph employ an interpreter as he knew their language? 24. How was Joseph affected when he heard his brethren talking about him? When he returned to them what did he do? What did he do with Simeon ? What was the character of Simeon? Gen. xlix. 5? |