Joseph>The Dreamer Pt:I

Israel lost Rachael when she was giving birth to her second child,Benjamin.Since Jacob loved Rachael best,her two children,Joseph and Benjamin,were his favorites.

Understandably,the other 10 children of Izzy were jealous of them...especially of Joseph...though younger then most of his brothers.Of course Joseph didn't help matters by telling his brother's his....dreams.

The thing was,though the brothers thought he was being arrogant,they were actually real dreams....dreams that forecast the future.And Joseph was just explaining the dreams...or was he?I believe his brothers were correct in being jealous of their pampered brother.

I mean come on,Israel gave Joseph a muti-colored coat,the envy of all his brothers.His brothers were rightly angered.

And you didn't want to piss his brothers off.When Shechem,son of Hamor(a Hivite chieftain),raped Leah's daughter,Dinah,the son's of Israel told the head over heals Shechem that he could marry Dinah if everyone in his clan got circumcised.After the Hivites circumcised themselves and they were still in pain,the son's of Jacob went into their camp and slaughtered them.


You did not want to piss these boys off.


But that is exactly what the young,smart,good looking,arrogant Joseph did.Here,let The Bible tell it:

Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said, "Listen to this dream I had. We were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. All of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine."
His brothers said, "So! You're going to rule us? You're going to boss us around?" And they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked.
He had another dream and told this one also to his brothers: "I dreamed another dream—the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to me!"
When he told it to his father and brothers, his father reprimanded him: "What's with all this dreaming? Am I and your mother and your brothers all supposed to bow down to you?" Now his brothers were really jealous; but his father brooded over the whole business.

So,when Israel sent Joseph to(of all places)Shechem to check up on his brothers,his scheming siblings decided to take their revenge.First,they took Joseph and threw him down a dry well.They were going to leave him there to rot. They changed their plan when some traders heading towards Egypt happened along."Why should we kill him?"they said amongst themselves,"Why not just sell him to these traders?"

And that is what is what they did.To make the story more believable,the brothers killed a goat and took Joseph's colorful coat and wiped it in the goat's blood.They were then going to tell Israel that Joseph must had been attacked and killed by a wild beast.

Thus God set in motion a series of unfortunate events that would change history forever.