Murders Who Kill His Children

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Murder is a good way to get rid of annoying people forever. When murders commit crimes, they are motivated by different things, and that appears clearly in the book of Genesis. Some stories tell how a person can kill some of his/her family members like Cain who killed his brother Abel, others tell some attempted family murder such as Joseph's brothers who tried to kill him before they sold him. These biblical stories happened many centuries ago, but until nowadays we still have people who kill their families for different reasons like Mark Meeks1 who had killed his wife and his children .Although anger drove down Cain, Joseph's brothers and Meeks, they did not have convincing reasons for killing their relatives because killing someone is not …show more content…

This is what the story of Joseph and his brothers shows. Joseph's brothers had sold him into slavery to Egypt, even though he had done nothing wrong, other than to articulate a couple of dreams he had that his eleven brothers would bow down to him. The brothers wronged Joseph not only because of his dreams but, also, because he was the favorite son of their father, Jacob/Israel3. Some of them even wanted to kill him. When the brothers came to Egypt, he did not know, for absolute certain, what their intentions were. For all he knew, they had heard of his great status—ruler of all Egypt, second only to Pharaoh—and were envious. Had they come to kill him? Were they only pretending not to recognize him? If so, he had to take the upper hand and demonstrate his absolute authority over them, if only to intimidate them into unconditional submission to him so that they would be much less likely to harm him. Since he was in a position of power, he felt that this was the best opportunity he would ever have to be vindicated for their unwarranted treatment of him in the past. He felt completely justified in tricking them and dealing harshly with them, as all of the things he did to them had them cowering in fear. Since it clearly was a miracle of God that he even was in such a high position in …show more content…

The two stories have differences than similarities. Meeks succeeded the crime and did not think twice before committing his crime but Joseph's brothers did, they wanted to kill him but they changed their minds, and that is maybe because they were a group of people who each one of them thinks differently, but Meeks was one person by himself and did the crime the moment he felt so

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