Exodus 1:11

God's Word

So the Egyptians put slave drivers in charge of them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

God said to Abram, “You can know for sure that your descendants will live in a land that is not their own, where they will be slaves, and they will be oppressed for 400 years.

Genesis 47:11

As Pharaoh had ordered, Joseph had his father and his brothers live in the best part of Egypt, the region of Rameses. He gave them property there.

1 Kings 9:19

all the storage cities that he owned. He also built cities for his chariots, cities for his war horses, and whatever ⌞else⌟ he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed.

2 Chronicles 16:4

Benhadad did what King Asa requested. He sent his generals and their armies to attack the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities in the territory of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 8:4

He rebuilt Tadmor in the desert and built all the storage cities in Hamath.

Psalm 105:13

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Psalm 129:1

“From the time I was young, people have attacked me …” (Israel should repeat this.)

Psalm 129:2

“From the time I was young, people have attacked me, but they have never overpowered me.

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, ⌞you will be like⌟ the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Psalm 81:6

“I removed the burden from his shoulder. His hands were freed from the basket.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter with back-breaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard.

Exodus 2:11

In the course of time Moses grew up. Then he went to ⌞see⌟ his own people and watched them suffering under forced labor. He saw a Hebrew, one of his own people, being beaten by an Egyptian.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard them crying out because of the slave drivers. I know how much they’re suffering.

Exodus 5:10

The slave drivers and foreman went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: I’m no longer giving you straw.

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite foremen complained to Pharaoh. They asked, “Why are you treating us this way?

Exodus 5:8

but insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They’re lazy! That’s why they’re crying, ‘Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.’

Proverbs 27:4

Anger is cruel, and fury is overwhelming, but who can survive jealousy?

Numbers 20:15

Our ancestors went to Egypt, and we lived there for many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

Deuteronomy 26:6

So the Egyptians treated us cruelly, oppressed us, and made us do back-breaking work for them.