“It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. (It is interesting to note that their exact offences are not made explicit; it is enough for the reader to gather, and therein be reminded that, Pharaoh, or “their lord“, the “king of Egypt” – insofar as he represents Almighty God, the King of kings and Lord of lords – is perfectly within his rights to punish those who merely offend him; for it ought to be the absolute honour and good pleasure of a good servant to subject himself to his king in all things.) And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker.  (Representative of God’s Holy Wrath.) So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, (representative of God’s Righteous Judgments; also see Matthew 18:34-35) the place where Joseph was confined. (Meanwhile, all symbolic representation aside, let us not forget that nothing is of course random, but is being perfectly orchestrated by our sovereign God to work together for Joseph’s Good. And yet, there is something so gripping about the stark juxtaposition we see here between the representation of God as severe King and Ruler of all who is perfectly within His rights to demand reverence and awe from His subjects uncompromisingly, and the tender lovingkind Abba Father who goes to extremely detailed and personally tailored lengths for even one such subject who is prepared to subject himself to Him, Love Him and “do all His will in the earth” [also see Acts 13:22].) And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them (note carefully that as established previously [also see the 1 Peter 5:10 principle continually, cyclically at work in our Joseph’s life], Joseph rules over the other prisoners and enjoys full God-appointed and delegated dominion in the prison, as is reiterated here . . . ), and he served them ( . . . yet, as a true Christlike Child of God, he rules by serving 😃 – Mark 10:43-44); so they were in custody for a while  (implying that they had ample time to get to know Joseph, become acquainted with his ways and be influenced by him . . . ).”

“¹It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. ²And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker. ³So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined. ⁴And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; so they were in custody for a while.”

– Genesis 40:1-4 (NKJV)