iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 12
Reunion
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 12: "Reunion" — SEASON FINALE --- THE SECOND JOURNEY The famine was relentless. Jacob and his sons had eaten through the grain purchased from Egypt. Simeon remained imprisoned there as surety. And the Egyptian governor's demand echoed in their home: "You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you." Benjamin. Rachel's child. The only remaining son of Jacob's beloved wife. The boy Jacob had protected with desperate intensity since Joseph's "death." "But Jacob said, 'My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'" The brothers tried to wait. Perhaps the famine would break. Perhaps they could find grain elsewhere. But the famine deepened, and the grain ran out, and starvation crept closer. Finally, Judah confronted his father: *"Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones. I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear...