<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt.<n id="1" /> An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard,<n id="2" /> purchased him from<n id="3" /> the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc> was with Joseph and showed him kindness.<n id="1" /> He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.<n id="2" />

The warden did not concern himself<n id="1" /> with anything that was in Joseph&#8217;s<n id="2" /> care because the <sc>Lordsc> was with him and whatever he was doing the <sc>Lordsc> was making successful.p>

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

<p class="bodytext">When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable,<n id="1" /> he said to Joseph, &#8220;I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread<n id="2" /> on my head.

Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant<n id="1" /> of the captain of the guards,<n id="2" /> was with us there. We told him our dreams,<n id="3" /> and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So they put foremen<n id="1" /> over the Israelites<n id="2" /> to oppress<n id="3" /> them with hard labor. As a result<n id="4" /> they built Pithom and Rameses<n id="5" /> as store cities for Pharaoh.

He replied to them, &#8220;Stay<n id="1" /> here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the <sc>Lordsc> may speak to me.&#8221; So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

<p class="bodytext">So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, &#8220;Go to your land,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has refused to permit me to go<n id="2" /> with you.&#8221;

When Balaam<n id="1" /> came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, &#8220;What has the <sc>Lordsc> spoken?&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> turned them over to<n id="1" /> King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor.<n id="2" /> The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.<n id="3" />

I will bring Sisera, the general of Jabin&#8217;s army, to you at the Kishon River, along with his chariots and huge army.<n id="1" /> I will hand him over to you.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Issachar&#8217;s leaders were with Deborah,p> <p class="poetry">the men of Issachar<n id="1" /> supported<n id="2" /> Barak;p> <p class="poetry">into the valley they were sent under Barak&#8217;s command.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Among the clans of Reuben there was intense<n id="4" /> heart searching.<n id="5" />p>

He captured a young man from Succoth<n id="1" /> and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth&#8217;s officials and city leaders &#8211; seventy-seven men in all.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But they forgot the <sc>Lordsc> their God, so he gave<n id="1" /> them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor&#8217;s<n id="2" /> army,<n id="3" /> and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

The name of Saul&#8217;s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the general in command of his army was Abner son of Ner, Saul&#8217;s uncle.<n id="1" />

Also take these ten portions of cheese to their commanding officer.<n id="1" /> Find out how your brothers are doing<n id="2" /> and bring back their pledge that they received the goods.<n id="3" />

<n id="1" /> Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul&#8217;s servants. His name was held in high esteem.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Abner son of Ner, the general in command of Saul&#8217;s army, had taken Saul&#8217;s son Ish-bosheth<n id="1" /> and had brought him to Mahanaim.

<p class="bodytext">Then the king said to his servants, &#8220;Do you not realize that a great leader<n id="1" /> has fallen this day in Israel?