boy with his whole life before him, and the next he was totally at the mercy of—actually the property of—some stranger. Following all that, he was falsely accused. After earning the favor of his master, Potiphar, the master’s wife tried to seduce Joseph. As we saw in the previous chapter, when he didn’t submit to her wishes, she lied and said, “This slave tried to rape me.” As result of her lies, he was unjustly put in prison and abandoned. That’s where we find Joseph in this chapter.