Genesis 50:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ After Jacob died, Joseph’s brothers said to each other: »What if Joseph still hates us and wants to get even with us for all the cruel things we did to him?«

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.« ⁴² When Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans to kill Jacob, she called her younger son, Jacob. She said: »Your brother Esau is comforting himself by planning to kill you.

²⁸ Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt.

¹⁷ He put all of them together in prison for three days.

²¹ They said to one another: »Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.« ²² Reuben said: »Did I not tell you? Did I say, ‘Do not sin against the boy’? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.«

³⁶ »‘I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

²¹ »Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him. ²² »He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.

⁵ They were in great fear and panic because God is with the righteous person.

⁵ There they were in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

¹ The wicked run when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

¹⁵ They show the work of the law written in their hearts. Their conscience also bears witness, and their thoughts accuse or excuse them.