PROMOTION

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• Genesis 12:2

  I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

• Genesis 41:2

  Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

• Genesis 41:4

  The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

• Genesis 41:5

  He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

• Genesis 41:6

  Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:7

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

• Genesis 41:11

  We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

• Genesis 41:12

  There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

• Genesis 41:13

  As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

• Genesis 41:17

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

• Genesis 41:18

  and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

• Genesis 41:19

  and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 41:20

  The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

• Genesis 41:21

  and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

• Genesis 41:22

  I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

• Genesis 41:23

  and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:24

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

• Genesis 41:28

  That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:29

  Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:30

  There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

• Genesis 41:31

  and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

• Genesis 41:32

  The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

• Genesis 41:33

  “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:36

  The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”

• Genesis 41:37

  The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

• Genesis 41:38

  Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

• Genesis 41:39

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

• Genesis 41:40

  You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

• Genesis 41:43

  and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• 1 Kings 11:26

  Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

• 1 Kings 11:27

  This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

• 1 Kings 11:28

  The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

• 1 Kings 11:29

  At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

• 1 Kings 11:31

  He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

• 1 Kings 11:32

  (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

• 1 Kings 11:33

  because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:34

  “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

• 1 Kings 11:35

  but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

• 1 Kings 16:1

  Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

• 1 Kings 16:2

  “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

• 1 Chronicles 11:6

  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

• Psalms 75:6

  For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

• Psalms 75:7

  But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

• Psalms 78:70

  He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

• Psalms 78:71

  from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

• Psalms 113:7

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

• Psalms 113:8

  that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

• Daniel 2:48

  Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

• Daniel 3:30

  Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.