Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Joseph enjoyed high status as second in power under Pharaoh the rest of his life.

Genesis 50:22-25  

Genesis 47:18-19  –    Genesis 15: 7 & 13-14  –  Genesis 50:4-6  –  Genesis 48:21

Fact of the Day  

No!  Joseph lived long enough to see the third generation of his descendants. And, remember, God had told Abraham they would be freed from their slavery in the fourth generation.  What happened?

JOSEPH WAS AGE 57 WHEN HIS FATHER, Jacob/Israel DIED.  But Joseph could not speak to Pharaoh directly.  He spoke to someone in Pharaoh’s household and asked them to ask Pharaoh to let him go back to Canaan to bury his father, with a promise to return. 

WHEN FATHER JACOB/ISRAEL DIED. He told Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.”

WHEN JOSEPH DIED he told his brothers “God will surely come to your aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Both Joseph and his father were embalmed, so Joseph still was treated as a prince, perhaps still living in his fine estate, but apparently a minor prince with little or no power by the time of his death.

Here is some external research I did:

(ALL DATES BELOW BASED ON WIKIPEDIA’S LIST OF PHARAOHS.  Which Pharaoh ruled during Jossephj’s lifetime are my own calculations)

1. IBIAU was reigning when Joseph arrived at age 17
2. AI reigned 24 years, including the 14 plenty and famine years (Joseph age 21-45)
3. INI reigned 2 years  (Joseph age 46-48)
4. SEWADJTU reigned 3 years (Joseph age 48-51)
5. INED reigned 3 years (Joseph age 52-55)
6. HORI reigned 5 years ( Joseph age 55-60)

After Hori died, there were 14 years of Pharaoh’s that archaeologists have not even found the names of.

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