Love embraces those who have wronged us

Genesis 45:4

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.”  When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

Genesis 4:9

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” 

 “I don’t know, ” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.  Love them as yourself,  for you were foreigners  in Egypt.  I am the Lord your God.

Questions in 2 Kings 

18:35

Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

19:11

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?

19:12

Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver  them—the gods of Gozan,  Harran,  Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

19:13

Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”

19:22

Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? 

 Against whom have you raised your voice

 and lifted your eyes in pride?

 Against the Holy One  of Israel!

19:25

“‘Have you not heard? 

 Long ago I ordained it.

 In days of old I planned  it;

 now I have brought it to pass,

 that you have turned fortified cities

 into piles of stone.

[Message No: 7919]