In the old testament, about Joseph's story, what happened to Potiphar?

Question

When Joseph was vindicated from the malicious accusation made by Potiphar, (the king's wife??) what did they do to her?

Also what happened to his wife? was she punished for falsely accusing Joseph?

Answer 1

You've got your facts a little wrong; it wasn't Potiphar who accused him - it was Potiphar's wife. And the Old Testament doesn't mention what happened to Potiphar (or his wife) later.

T"he narrative tells that his brothers plotted against him one day when he was 17 and would have killed him had not Reuben interposed. He persuaded them instead to throw Joseph into a pit and secretly planned to rescue him later. However, while Reuben was absent, the others planned to sell him to a company of Ishmaelites merchants.
His brothers carried out their plan and sold him to the merchants for 20 shekels of silver. They then dipped Joseph's colored coat in goat's blood and showed it to their father, saying that Joseph had been torn apart in the field; other versions have Jacob assuming that his son was torn apart by a wild beast, and the brothers saying nothing.
These merchants brought Joseph to Egypt where Midianite slave dealers in turn sold him to Potiphar, an "officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard" (Gen. 37:36). Joseph prospered in Potiphar's household and was eventually made head of the servants.
After Joseph rejected the attempts of Potiphar's wife to seduce him, she accused Joseph of attempted rape, and he was cast into the state prison (Gen. 39:40), where he remained for at least two years. The story tells of two servants of Pharaoh's household who were in jail with Joseph and asked him to interpret their dreams. Joseph correctly predicted the future based on their dreams: one would be reinstated in his post while the other would be executed. Joseph urged the first, a royal cupbearer, to get him out of prison once he was reinstated, but the cupbearer forgot about him and left him in prison for two more years.
At the end of that period, Pharaoh had a strange dream. The chief cupbearer remembered Joseph and recommended his services to Pharaoh; at his suggestion, Joseph was brought from prison to interpret the king's dreams. Joseph predicted seven years of plenty to be followed by seven years of famine and advised the Pharaoh to appoint someone to store up surplus grain. Pharaoh was pleased with Joseph's interpretation and advice and gave him authority over all the land of Egypt (Gen.41:46). He gave Joseph the royal name of "Zaphnath-paaneah" [Hebrew language], which, according to some opinions, translates as "Discoverer of hidden things" — a reference to Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams.
At age 30, Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, and thus became a member of the priestly class.
As Joseph had foreseen, seven years of plenty came, during which he stored up a great abundance of grain in granaries built for the purpose. These years were followed by seven years of famine "over all the face of the earth", when "all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain" (Gen. 41:56, 57; 47:13,14). Thus, "Joseph gathered up all the money that was in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought." Afterwards all the cattle and all the land, and at last the Egyptians themselves, became the property of Pharaoh.
During this period of famine, Joseph's brothers, except for Benjamin, also came down to Egypt to buy grain. On reaching Egypt, Joseph's brothers, not recognizing him, "bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground" (Gen. 42:6), thus fulfilling in part his earlier dream. However, to fulfill the dream completely, Joseph needed Benjamin to come to Egypt as well, so he disguised his identity from his brothers and devised a plot: He accused them of being spies and imprisoned them for three days. He then sent them away with grain, retaining Simeon as a hostage (Gen. 42:1-25), while ordering them not to return without Benjamin.
Upon their return to Egypt with Benjamin, Joseph received them kindly and threw a feast for them. Joseph then tested them further, by accusing Benjamin of theft. But Judah pleaded for Benjamin, offering himself as a slave instead. Convinced of his brothers' repentance and overcome with emotion, Joseph finally revealed himself to them. He forgave them and sent for his father Jacob and all their families and possessions to come to Egypt. Joseph settled Jacob's families with Pharaoh's blessing in Land of Goshen (Gen. 47:29).
When Joseph died, he is reported to have lived to the age of 110 (Genesis. 50:22). Kitchen notes that this figure cannot be a coincidence because it "happens to be the ideal life span in Egyptian aspirations, by contrast with the Hebrew figures of 70 to 80 years (Ps. 90:10). Shortly before his death, he made the Israelites take an oath that they would resettle his bones in Canaan. The oath was fulfilled during the Exodus where his remains were eventually buried in Shechem (Ex. 8:19; Josh. 24:32)."

Answer 2

Potiphar is mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. After Joseph had been brought to ancient Egypt, having been sold into slavery by his own brothers, Potiphar, a wealthy and perhaps prominent Egyptian, purchased Joseph as a household slave.

According to the narrative in Genesis, Joseph was eventually appointed the head of Potiphar's household, and Potiphar's wife attempted to seduce Joseph. When Joseph demurred, Potiphar's wife falsely accused Joseph of attempting to rape her and supported her false accusation with a piece of Joseph's garment. As a result, Joseph was sent to prison.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the story of Potiphar's wife derives from the Jahwist source, and stands in the same place that the stories of the butler and the baker and Pharaoh's dreams stand in the Elohist text. Casting Joseph as a victim of seduction, and of false witness, the text suits the Jahwist's purpose of denigrating Joseph, the Jahwist being a southern writer, and Joseph being a northern hero. This may also be the reason for the homoerotic undertones to the description of Potiphar's favouritism of Joseph, and thus for the description of Potiphar as a eunuch (saris). It should be noted, however, that the term saris may also refer to any royal official (particularly a military official) and would make more sense in the present instance as it would be unusual for a eunuch to have a wife.

The Elohist tradition still makes mention of a man named Potiphar (corrupted as Potipherah), but in that tradition, Potiphar is simply a priest of On, whose daughter Joseph marries. It is possible that the northern view of Potiphar, the view the Elohist records, is where the Jahwist derived the name and motif of the sexual connection with Joseph.

Answer 3

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