This document discusses the theme of sibling rivalry and conflict between brothers in the Old Testament. It provides several examples: Cain killed his brother Abel out of jealousy, Abraham sent Ishmael and Hagar away at Sarah's urging, and Esau hated Jacob and planned to kill him after Jacob received the blessing meant for Esau. The document then focuses on the story of Joseph and his brothers, recounting how Joseph's dreams of dominance made his brothers jealous, leading them to hate him.

1. Sibling Rivalry
Genesis 37:1-11

2. Conflict Between Brothers is a
Central Theme In OT History.

3. Gen 4:8 Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when
they were in the field, Cain rose up against his
brother Abel and killed him.

4. Gen 21:9-10 But Sarah saw
the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, whom she had
borne to Abraham,
laughing. So she said to
Abraham, "Cast out this
slave woman with her son,
for the son of this slave
woman shall not be heir
with my son Isaac.“

5. Gen 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with
which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself,
"The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I
will kill my brother Jacob."

6. Brothers
Hating
Brothers
Climaxes
with Jacob’s
sons.

7. Genesis 37:1–11 (ESV)
37 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings,
in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the
flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of
Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph
brought a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now
Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons,
because he was the son of his old age. And he made
him a robe of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw
that their father loved him more than all his brothers,
they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

8. 5 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers
they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Hear this dream
that I have dreamed: 7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the
field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold,
your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or
are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for
his dreams and for his words.

9. 9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and
said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the
moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he
told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and
said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I
and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves
to the ground before you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of
him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

10. 1Ki 12:16 -17 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to
them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in
David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O
Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their
tents. But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in
the cities of Judah.

11. John 1:11-13 He came to his own, and his own people did not
receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were
born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God.

12. John13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love
one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one
another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if
you have love for one another.”

13. 1Th 4:9 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for
anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God
to love one another, …

14. 1John 3:10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and
who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice
righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his
brother. For this is the message that you have heard from the
beginning, that we should love one another.

15. 1Peter 1:22-23 Having purified your souls by your obedience to
the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly
from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of
perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and
abiding word of God;

16. 1John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another.