Reader-Response Journal (Writings based on reading the KJV Bible, and The Bible Guide) Response # 1: In the beginning, Joseph was born to Jacob and Rachel in old age and thought of as a blessing from God, and loved more than his sibling’s. Rachel’s affliction was that she could not conceive; God remembered, and answered her prayers by giving her a child. Rachel felt shame, and believed God had removed disgrace from her life by allowing her to have a child. Joseph means “may he add” in Hebrew. “Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach (King James Version, Gen 30:22-23).” Secondly, as time went on, Joseph began to have dreams as a young man, thought to reveal God’s ambitions of greatness as a leader. Therefore, the coat of many colors, which expressed Jacob’s love and acknowledgment to Joseph, as a significant part in God’s plan of fulfilling the covenant of Abraham. The …show more content…
Rehoboam sealed his fate with the Lord. The two tribes had no further contact, and are at unrest today. Israel is the northern kingdom, with the ten tribes, and Judah is the southern kingdom, with two tribes. God’s judgement of Rehoboam was not in keeping with His commandments. God forbade idolatry, and condemned the slavery of his people. Through David’s devotion, God left his son Rehoboam, two of the twelve tribes. A moral lesson for the greater good of God is with immorality there is great division. “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in our members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures (King James Version, James