The Bible In Paintings: JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR'S WIFE

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 39

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. So he left in Joseph’s care everything he had; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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"Potiphar Names Joseph Administrator"

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Source

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"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO Y SAAVEDRA
"Joseph’s Chastity"

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JACOB DE BACKER
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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LAZZARO BALDI
"Joseph und die Frau des Potiphar"

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NICOLAS BERTIN
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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SIMONE CANTARINI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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CIGOLI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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CHRISTIAEN VAN COUWENBERGH
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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ANTONIO MARÍA ESQUIVEL
"José y la Mujer de Putifar"

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FILIPPO FALCIATORE
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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GIROLAMO FORABOSCO
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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PAUL GAUGUIN
"Joseph et la Femme de Potiphar"

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ORAZIO GENTILESCHI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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GIOVANNI BAGLIONE
"Joseph und Potiphars Weib"

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GUERCINO
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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GUIDO RENI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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GUIDO RENI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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GIOVANNI MARTINELLI
"Joseph et la Femme de Putiphar"

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JEAN BAPTISTE DE CHAMPAIGNE
"Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar"

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JOHANN KÖNIG
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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LEONELLO SPADA
"Giuseppe e la Moglie di Putifarre"

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CARLO FRANCESCO NUVOLONE
"Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar"

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NICOLAS RÉGNIER
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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FRANCESCO SOLIMENA
"Joseph and Potiphar´s Wife"

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PHILIPP VEIT
"Joseph und Potiphars Weib"

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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JEAN-BAPTISTE NATTIER
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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ADRIAEN VAN DER WERFF
"Joseph Harassed by Potiphar's Wife"

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PIETER COECKE VAN AELST
"Joseph Escapes from Potiphar's Wife"

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PROPERZIA DE’ ROSSI
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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Source

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REMBRANDT
"Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife"

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NOËL HALLÉ
"Joseph Accused by Potiphar’s Wife"

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JAN SYMONSZ. PYNAS
"Joseph Accused by Potiphar’s Wife"

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"

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J A C O B
ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, JACOB'S BLESSING
JACOB'S STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
JACOB FLEES FROM LABAN
JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD
JACOB RECONCILES WITH ESAU

J O S E P H
YOUNG JOSEPH'S DREAMS
JOSEPH'S ABDUCTION TO EGYPT
JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR'S WIFE
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PRISONERS' DREAMS
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH'S DREAMS
JOSEPH'S BROTHERS IN EGYPT

[Red Badger]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned............................

[Hebrews 11:6]

That’s Hezekiah 3:5, isn’t it?

[Red Badger]

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ is an idiom that is adapted from a line in William Congreve’s play, The Mourning Bride (1697). The line from which it came is ‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

[Red Badger]

Many people misattribute it to Shakespeare.............

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Stop saying things right before I do!!!!

[Red Badger]

[stars & stripes forever]

Do you think Potihar and his wife ended up in the poor house after Joseph was thrown in jail?

[Red Badger]

https://claudemariottini.com/2007/01/10/hezekiah-316/

[Hebrews 11:6]

Interesting question. What do you think?

[Hebrews 11:6]

LOL

[Bratch]

[Hebrews 11:6]

YO ADRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potiphar

[stars & stripes forever]

Interesting...

What happened to Potiphar after that is unclear; some sources identify him as Potipherah, an Egyptian priest whose daughter, Asenath, marries Joseph.

Along with both “Religious references” and Islam commentary.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Some paintings are more modest than others.

I asked Bill Clinton, and he said she’s hot.

5.56mm

[Hebrews 11:6]

Ol’ Bill is not very discriminating.

[gloryblaze]

The facial expressions are fascinating - no. 11 especially, IMHO.

She is depicted anywhere from lovesick to cunning to evil. Poor fellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU314nyMKWE

[Hebrews 11:6]

She is depicted anywhere from lovesick to cunning to evil. Poor fellow.

LOL!