Exodus 2:23

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After a long time passed, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

Cross References

Genesis 16:11

Then the Messenger of the Lord said to her, “You are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. You will name him Ishmael [God Hears], because the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

Genesis 4:10

The Lord asked, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Nehemiah 9:9

You saw how our ancestors suffered in Egypt, and you heard them crying at the Red Sea.

Job 35:9

The weight of oppression makes them cry out. The power of mighty people makes them call for help.

Psalm 102:1

O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you.

Psalm 102:2

Do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble. Turn your ear toward me. Answer me quickly when I call.

Psalm 12:5

“Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will provide safety for those who long for it.”

Psalm 18:6

I called on the Lord in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.

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 4:19

Now, the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”

Exodus 6:5

Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians hold in slavery, and I have remembered my promise.

Exodus 6:9

Moses reported this to the Israelites. But they would not listen to him because they were so discouraged by their back-breaking work.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 when they talked to Pharaoh.

Isaiah 19:20

These objects will be a sign and a witness that the Lord of Armies is in Egypt. When the people cry to the Lord because of those who oppress them, he will send a savior and defender to rescue them.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

Numbers 20:16

When we cried out to the Lord, he heard us, sent a messenger, and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we’re here in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Acts 7:30

“Forty years later, a Messenger appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert of Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 24:15

Pay them each day before sunset because they are poor and need their pay. Otherwise, they will complain to the Lord about you, and you will be condemned for your sin.

James 5:4

The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout ⌞to God⌟ against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.

Judges 4:3

The people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help. King Jabin had 900 chariots made of iron and had cruelly oppressed Israel for 20 years.

1 Samuel 12:8

When your ancestors went with Jacob to Egypt ⌞and were oppressed⌟, they cried out to the Lord, who sent Moses and Aaron to bring them out of Egypt. The Lord settled them in this place.

1 Samuel 9:16

“About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the territory of Benjamin. Anoint him to be ruler of my people Israel. He will save my people from the Philistines because I’ve seen my people’s ⌞suffering⌟ and their cry has come to me.”