Gen 37:4, BUT WHEN HIS BROTHERS SAW THAT THEIR FATHER LOVED HIM MORE THAN ALL HIS BROTHERS, THEY HATED HIM AND COULD NOT SPEAK PEACEABLY TO HIM.
Verse 1 calls him Jacob because he is acting in the flesh! He causes problems in his own family by showing favoritism to one of his sons Joseph! And, they hated him more because of his dreams! Verse 8, They envied him verse 11
Gen 37: 23-24, So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that THEY STRIPPED JOSEPH OF HIS TUNIC, the tunic of many colors that was on him.
Gen 37:28, Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, AND SOLD HIM TO THE ISHMAELITES FOR TWENTY SHEKELS OF SILVER. AND THEY TOOK JOSEPH TO EGYPT.
Joseph is a type of Christ Jesus! Joseph was stripped of his tunic and so was Jesus stripped of HIS. As Joseph was sold so was Jesus sold by judas! Joseph was taken to Egypt, a type of the world, As Jesus willingly came down to the world!
As Jesus said, IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.” JESUS knows what we are going through by firsthand experience! Seek HIM always in times of joy and in tribulation!