“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm, and myrrh, and they were on their way down to Egypt. The brothers eat — indifferent to the brother in the pit — while a caravan appears. The timing of the Ishmaelite caravan is the providence that redirects from murder to sale. The application: the providence that arrives in the middle of a crisis is often the presence of strangers traveling somewhere else, whose route intersects with your disaster.
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