“But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.”
The LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. The repetition of the LORD was with him — first in Potiphar's house (verse 2), now in prison — is the theological refrain of the Joseph story. The kindness and favor that appear in Potiphar's house reappear in the prison. The application: the covenant presence is not location-dependent. The LORD is with Joseph in the pit, in the slave house, in the prison. The presence travels.
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