Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Joseph had spent two more years in gloomy prison when the Lord gave Pharaoh remarkable dreams, two dreams in one night pointing to the same coming calamity, that left the king troubled in the morning. Pharaoh told the dreams to the magicians and wise men of Egypt, who had a reputation for solving difficulties, but with all their magic and boasted wisdom they could not explain them. Their failure increased his perplexity and distress and spread agitation and terror through the palace.
Seeing the king's perplexity and distress recalled to the chief butler his own prison dream and suddenly brought Joseph to mind. By my faults he meant remorseful conviction of his forgetfulness and ingratitude, his failure of duty, and his failure to acknowledge and gratefully remember Joseph in affliction and confinement after his own restoration to favor.
In confessing he told Pharaoh at once how Joseph had interpreted the troubling dreams he and the chief baker had in prison like the king's, and how those interpretations came true. He identified the interpreter as a Hebrew captive, a young Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard, whose predictions were fulfilled exactly in every particular. The butler was restored to office and the baker was hanged, just as interpreted.
Joseph had spent two more years in gloomy prison when the Lord gave Pharaoh remarkable dreams, two dreams in one night pointing to the same coming calamity, that left the king troubled in the morning. Pharaoh told the dreams to the magicians and wise men of Egypt, who had a reputation for solving difficulties, but with all their magic and boasted wisdom they could not explain them. Their failure increased his perplexity and distress and spread agitation and terror through the palace.
Seeing the king's perplexity and distress recalled to the chief butler his own prison dream and suddenly brought Joseph to mind. By my faults he meant remorseful conviction of his forgetfulness and ingratitude, his failure of duty, and his failure to acknowledge and gratefully remember Joseph in affliction and confinement after his own restoration to favor.
In confessing he told Pharaoh at once how Joseph had interpreted the troubling dreams he and the chief baker had in prison like the king's, and how those interpretations came true. He identified the interpreter as a Hebrew captive, a young Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard, whose predictions were fulfilled exactly in every particular. The butler was restored to office and the baker was hanged, just as interpreted.