 | sir John Dean Paul (1st bart.) - 1840 - 72 pagina’s
...first-born, but Joseph is the person specially mentioned at the commencement of this interesting history. " Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age." Most of the Hebrew commentators either render this, " Because he was a wise son:" or consider it to... | |
 | Daniel M'Allum - 1840 - 314 pagina’s
...ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness." JOSEPH. —PART I. " Now lane! loved Joseph mere than all his children, because he was the son of his old age . and he made bira a coat of many colours," Gen. ixxvii, 3. AT this period, Rachel, the mother of Joseph, was dead,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1841 - 232 pagina’s
...best men. You read in Gen. xxxvii. 3, " Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because ho was the son of his old age ; and he made him a coat of many colours." This was the darling. Jacob's heart was exceedingly set upon him ; his very life was bound up in the... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 512 pagina’s
...in the earliest ages, but even the art of dyeing was carried to great perfection. Gen. xxxviii. 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,...his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours. The value and distinction attached to such variegated dresses, shows that they were not common, and... | |
 | John Kaltner - 2003 - 156 pagina’s
...account of these events is found in Genesis 37:3,1 1: 'Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children. because he was the son of his old age: and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. 'But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more... | |
 | Pierre Sorlin - 2003 - 200 pagina’s
...books or papers.5 Dreams have often been passed around like news. We are told in Genesis (37, 5-6) that 'Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it [to] his brethren. . . . And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed'; in Jeremiah (23, 27) there is... | |
 | Ouellette, R.b. - 2004 - 154 pagina’s
...and troubles. One of the best examples of dealing with injustice in the Bible is the story of Joseph. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,...age: and he made him a coat of many colours. "And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 516 pagina’s
...traitorous Samuel Zborowski to the scaffold despite the nobility's resistance. 106.40 coats of many colours 'Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,...old age: and he made him a coat of many colours', Genesis xxxvii.g; see also Genesis, xxxvii.23 and 32. 107.15-21 There can ... the West Cf. Retinger:... | |
 | Mary Inez Ramirez - 2004 - 174 pagina’s
...jealous of me?" I wondered. I marked that night as an awakening to the beginning of family politics. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,...old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colours. (Gen 37:3) And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out... | |
 | Tom Sikes - 2004 - 145 pagina’s
...we go again. Strife rises, and conflict emerges. "Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than... | |
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. 
