Judah and Joseph as Two Kings Goring Each Other

FOR YOU ARE LIKE PHARAOH (Genesis 44:18). He said to him: Just as Pharaoh is great here, and you are second to him, so my father is great in the land of Canaan, and I am second to him. He said: I swear, if I draw my sword from its scabbard, I begin with you, and with Pharaoh I finish, as it is said, "Iron sharpens iron" (Proverbs 27:17). It is fitting for the two of them to stand one against the other; it is fitting for a king who exalts himself against a king. Judah is a king, as it is written of him, "Judah prevailed above his brothers" (I Chronicles 5:2). Joseph is a king, as it is written of him, "And he made him ride in his second chariot" (Genesis 41:43). Therefore the two of them were goring one another. Therefore it is said, "in me, my lord" (Genesis 44:18).