Gen 41:39-57, Ezr 7:6-11, Neh 2:4-6, Est 10:3, Dan 2:46-49, 3:30 | ESV | STEP | Then Pharaoh said to Joseph , Since God has shown you all this , there is none so discerning and wise as you are.

Genesis 41:39-57

39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. 40 ^aYou shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. ^{▼▼Hebrew and according to your command all my people shall kiss the ground} Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” 41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, ^cI have set you over all the land of Egypt.” 42 Then Pharaoh ^dtook his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and ^eclothed him in garments of fine linen ^fand put a gold chain about his neck. 43 And he made him ride in his second chariot. ^gAnd they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” ^{▼▼Abrek, probably an Egyptian word, similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel} Thus he set him ⁱover all the land of Egypt. 44 Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and ^jwithout your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

46 Joseph was thirty years old when he ^kentered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. 47 During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, 48 and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. 49 And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ^llike the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

50 Before the year of famine came, ^mtwo sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.” ^{▼▼ Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget} 52 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^omade me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” ^{▼▼ Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful}

53 The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, 54 and ^qthe seven years of famine began to come, ^ras Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

56 So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses ^{▼▼Hebrew all that was in them} and ^tsold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^uover all the earth.

Ezra 7:6-11

6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^vskilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^wfor the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

7 And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and ^xsome of the priests and ^yLevites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple ^zservants. 8 And Ezra ^{▼▼Aramaic he} came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 9 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, ^abfor the good hand of his God was on him. 10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it ^acand to ^adteach his statutes and rules in Israel.

11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:

Nehemiah 2:4-6

4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed ^aeto the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.” 6 And the king said to me ( ^afthe queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me ^agwhen I had given him a time.

Esther 10:3

3 For Mordecai the Jew was ^ahsecond in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he ^aisought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.

Daniel 2:46-49

Daniel Is Promoted

46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar ^ajfell upon his face and ^akpaid homage to Daniel, and commanded that ^alan offering and ^amincense be offered up to him. 47 The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your ^anGod is God of gods and ^aoLord of kings, and ^apa revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.” 48 Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great ^aqgifts, and made him ruler over the whole ^arprovince of Babylon and ^aschief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. 49 Daniel made a request of the king, and he ^atappointed ^auShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of ^avthe province of Babylon. But Daniel ^awremained at the king’s court.

Daniel 3:30

30 Then the king promoted ^axShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in ^aythe province of Babylon.