Genesis 37:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. They hated Joseph and could not speak to him in a friendly way.

⁵ He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast (he had a bad attitude).

⁴¹ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: »The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.«

⁵ One time Joseph had a dream. He told his brothers about it and they hated him even more.

¹¹ Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

¹⁸ Before he arrived, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him. ¹⁹ They said to one another: »Look, here comes the hero of those dreams! ²⁰ »Let us kill him and throw him into a water pit. We can say that some wild animal ate him. Then we will see what happens to those dreams.« ²¹ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said. ²² »Do not murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a dry well out here in the desert.« Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father. ²³ When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat. ²⁴ They put him into a water pit. It had no water in it.

²³ »Archers provoked him, shot at him, and harassed him.

¹² Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. Jehovah said to Samuel: »This is the one. Anoint him!« ¹³ Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the Spirit of Jehovah took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

²⁸ Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard David talking to the men. Then Eliab became angry with David. »Why did you come here,« he asked him,« and with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how overconfident and headstrong you are. You came here just to see the battle.«

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.

¹⁹ My mortal enemies are growing stronger. Many hate me for no reason.

³ His brothers said to him: »Leave here and go to Judea. That way your disciples also may see the works that you do. ⁴ »No one does anything in secret when he seeks to be known publicly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.« ⁵ For his brothers did not express active faith in him.

¹⁸ »If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ »If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.

¹² We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

²⁰ If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.