Genesis 45:5

Joseph urges them not to be grieved, for God sent him ahead to preserve life. He interprets their evil act within God's saving purpose.

Cross-references · 16

• Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
• Acts 7:9–15“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
• Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
• Gen 45:7–8God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
• Acts 2:23–24him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Ps 105:16–17He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
• Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
• Isa 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
• Gen 47:25They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
• 2 Cor 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
• 2 Cor 2:11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
• 2 Sam 12:12For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
• 2 Sam 16:10–12The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
• 1 Sam 1:19They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
• Acts 4:24–28When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
• 2 Sam 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

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