But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
On the third day after the dreams, at Pharaoh's birthday feast for his servants, Pharaoh lifted up the chief butler and the chief baker. He restored the butler to his butlership to give the cup into Pharaoh's hand, and he put the baker to death by hanging at the king's command. The hanging took place on Pharaoh's birthday three days after the dreams.
The baker's hanging, together with the butler's restoration, happened exactly as Joseph had interpreted their dreams. The event fulfilled his interpretation and proved it true, confirming that the interpretation had come true. The exact fulfillment took place before the butler's eyes.
Yet when his anxiety was relieved in restored prosperity he did not remember Joseph in affliction and confinement but forgot him. That forgetting exposes guilt in the sin of ingratitude. Ingratitude is among the most aggravating sins in the Lord's sight, abhorred by God and man yet of daily occurrence.
Two years afterward, when Pharaoh was troubled by remarkable dreams that the magicians and wise men of Egypt could not explain, the butler cited the baker's hanging and his own restoration to office as proof that Joseph had interpreted each man's dream truly. That testimony led Pharaoh to turn to Joseph.
On the third day after the dreams, at Pharaoh's birthday feast for his servants, Pharaoh lifted up the chief butler and the chief baker. He restored the butler to his butlership to give the cup into Pharaoh's hand, and he put the baker to death by hanging at the king's command. The hanging took place on Pharaoh's birthday three days after the dreams.
The baker's hanging, together with the butler's restoration, happened exactly as Joseph had interpreted their dreams. The event fulfilled his interpretation and proved it true, confirming that the interpretation had come true. The exact fulfillment took place before the butler's eyes.
Yet when his anxiety was relieved in restored prosperity he did not remember Joseph in affliction and confinement but forgot him. That forgetting exposes guilt in the sin of ingratitude. Ingratitude is among the most aggravating sins in the Lord's sight, abhorred by God and man yet of daily occurrence.
Two years afterward, when Pharaoh was troubled by remarkable dreams that the magicians and wise men of Egypt could not explain, the butler cited the baker's hanging and his own restoration to office as proof that Joseph had interpreted each man's dream truly. That testimony led Pharaoh to turn to Joseph.