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Genesis 37:8

WEB

8His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

KJV

8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

BSB

8Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

FBV

8Do you really think you're going to be our king?” they asked. “Do you honestly believe you're going to rule over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and how he described it.

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Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

1 Samuel 10:27

27But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace.


Acts 7:35

35This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


Luke 20:17

17But he looked at them and said, Then what is this that is written, The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?


Psalms 118:22

22The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.


Genesis 49:26

26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.


Genesis 37:4

4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.


Hebrews 10:29

29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?


1 Samuel 17:28

28Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”


Psalms 2:3-6

3“Let’s [+] break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.” 4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord[+] will have them in derision. 5Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath: 6Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”


Acts 4:27-28

27[+] For truly,[+] both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, 28to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.