Exodus 5:14

God's Word

Pharaoh’s slave drivers had placed Israelite foremen in charge of the people. The slave drivers beat the foremen and said, “You didn’t finish all the bricks you were ordered to make yesterday or today. Why didn’t you make as many as you used to?”

Cross References

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 5:13

The slave drivers kept hurrying them. They said, “Finish the same amount of work each day, just as when you had straw.”

Exodus 5:15

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

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen:

Isaiah 10:24

The Almighty Lord of Armies says: My people who live in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with a rod or when they raise their staff against you as the Egyptians did.