In the Bible, Gn 40:22, why was the Chief Baker given a death sentence?

Question

Can you explain this passage?

Answer 1

The cupbearer and the baker each had a dream. In the cupbearer's dream, Pharaoh was the ultimate benefactor. In the baker's dream, the birds stole what otherwise would have been provided Pharaoh (the bread in the basket.) The cupbearer's dream was the reflection of a contrite servant with his master's interests in mind. The baker's dream reflected a passive helpless mind who couldn't protect what belonged to Pharaoh, even though it was right on top of his head.

Pharaoh wants servants that think of Pharaoh - not servants that will allow natural forces to prevent Pharaoh from gaining what is rightfuly his. Plus, Joseph foretold that the baker would be killed, and Joseph was a prophet of God.

Answer 2

Tricky, innit, that whole "do as I say, don't do as I do" element that surrounds capital punishment? Thing is, it's the assumption of a power beyond that of the individual by the state - in this case to authenticate and justify the removal of a human life. If an individual does that, it's murder, if a state does it, it's legal process. But here's the thing - I suppose the same logic is applicable all the way down the scale - if you lock someone up in a small room for 35 years, and you're an individual, it's kidnapping. If you do that and you're the state, it's legal imprisonment. So I can see that the death penalty has a logical place in the whole "crime and punishment" scale of what might be considered natural justice - you kill someone, we'll kill you for it. But for me, the idea of natural justice is a little naive. Surely as a state, we should strive for a higher ground of morality when dealing with criminals that the instinctive whiplash of hitting back in direct measure. We don't advocate burglars going free on the understanding that one night their house will be broken into, their things taken and their safe haven violated. We don't punish wife-beaters by beating them up on a regular basis (at least, that's not the official, state-sanctioned punishment), so there's no real demand for us to kill murderers, or rape rapists or so on. Natural justice is an instinctive, individual reaction that it does not become a state to give in to. What's more, for those unable to make the distinction between state power and individual will, it breeds exactly the message you mention - if the state can kill, then why can't I? I have a suspicion that kind of logic only leads us into a lowest common denominator spiral as a society, which can only make the societies we live in more dangerous as time goes on.

Answer 3

Abbreviation is GE 40:22 who's knows but it did not contribute to the story. The guist of the story was that Joseph could fortell the future so that is how people knew that God was with him.
When someone can accurately predict the future we know he is a real prophet. Daniel showed that when what he predicted during the march of the world powers happened just like he said. when he predicted that the king would get the disease and it would last 7 years and then he would be restored to his kingship. Da 2:
Also, in chapter 3 the men surviveing the firey furnace that is another good indication God was with them.
What we need to do is throw all the religious leaders into a firey furnace and see which ones survives and then we know the real one.

Answer 4

Because it was the whim of a pharoah with absolute power. It could have just been that he didn't like what the baker baked that day.

Otherwise scripture doesn't say exactly WHY it happened.

Answer 5

Yes... your Answer... is... HERE !

One:

(Ecclesiastes 3:2) a time to be born, = = =and a time to die; = = = a time to plant, and a time to pull up what is planted;

Two:

(Hebrews 9:27) And as = = = it is appointed = = = to men once to die, = but after this the judgment,

Thanks, RR

Answer 6

He got the Pharaoh ticked off. That's why he was in prison..You just didn't mess with the Pharaoh.

Answer 7

Just another example of the Father of Jesus doing the work Jesus will do when he return with a vengeance.


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Answer 8

Because he refused to do his own homework and kept asking others for the right answer.

Answer 9

He must of stole something and lied about it to the King.

Answer 10

1And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

6And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

8And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

9And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

10And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

11And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

12And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

14But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

15For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

19Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

20And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

21And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

22But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.




Verse 1 tells you why they were in prison to begin with and then it goes on about the dreams they had, read the whole chapter