Sibling Rivalry

Stories tagged Sibling Rivalry:

• Jacob and Esau Aug 18, 2025

  

  In the ancient lands where Abraham and Isaac had walked with God, there lived a man named Isaac who had married Rebekah, a woman of great faith and wisdom. For many years, they longed for children, but Rebekah remained barren. Isaac prayed earnestly to the Lord for his wife, and God heard his prayer.

  When Rebekah finally conceived, she experienced such turmoil within her womb that she cried out, “If this is how it will be, why do I exist?” She went to inquire of the Lord, and God spoke to her with words that would echo through generations:

• Joseph's Coat of Many Colors Aug 14, 2025

  

  In the rolling hills of Canaan, where the great patriarch Jacob lived with his twelve sons, there was one boy who held a special place in his father’s heart. Joseph was seventeen years old, the eleventh son of Jacob, but he was the first son born to Rachel, the wife Jacob had loved most dearly.

  Jacob’s love for Joseph was deeper and more visible than his love for any of his other children. Perhaps it was because Joseph had been born to him in his old age, when he had thought his days of fathering children were over. Perhaps it was because Joseph reminded him so much of his beloved Rachel, who had died giving birth to Benjamin. Or perhaps it was simply because Joseph possessed a gentle spirit and an eager mind that delighted his father’s heart.