Exodus 2:23

New Century Version

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The people of Israel groaned, because they were forced to work very hard. When they cried for help, God heard them.

Cross References

Genesis 16:11

The angel added, “You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.

Genesis 4:10

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

Nehemiah 9:9

“You saw our ancestors suffering in Egypt and heard them cry out at the Red Sea.

Job 35:9

“People cry out when they are in trouble; they beg for relief from powerful people.

Psalm 102:1

Lord, listen to my prayer; let my cry for help come to you.

Psalm 102:2

Do not hide from me in my time of trouble. Pay attention to me. When I cry for help, answer me quickly.

Psalm 12:5

But the Lord says, “I will now rise up, because the poor are being hurt. Because of the moans of the helpless, I will give them the help they want.”

Psalm 18:6

In my trouble I called to the Lord. I cried out to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my call for help reached his ears.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter. They forced the Israelites to work hard to make bricks and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians were not merciful to them in all their painful work.

Exodus 4:19

While Moses was still in Midian, the Lord said to him, “Go back to Egypt, because the men who wanted to kill you are dead now.”

Exodus 6:5

Now I have heard the cries of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are treating as slaves, and I remember my agreement.

Exodus 6:9

So Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him. They were discouraged, and their slavery was hard.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to the king.

Isaiah 19:20

This will be a sign and a witness to the Lord All-Powerful in the land of Egypt. When the people cry to the Lord for help, he will send someone to save and defend them. He will rescue them from those who hurt them.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard belonging to the Lord All-Powerful is the nation of Israel; the garden that he loves is the people of Judah. He looked for justice, but there was only killing. He hoped for right living, but there were only cries of pain.

Numbers 20:16

but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard us and sent us an angel to bring us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land.

Acts 7:30

“Forty years later an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush as he was in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 24:15

Pay them each day before sunset, because they are poor and need the money. Otherwise, they may complain to the Lord about you, and you will be guilty of sin.

James 5:4

The pay you did not give the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the workers have been heard by the Lord All-Powerful.

Judges 4:3

Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and was very cruel to the people of Israel for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.

1 Samuel 12:8

“After Jacob entered Egypt, his descendants cried to the Lord for help. So the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your ancestors out of Egypt and brought them to live in this place.

1 Samuel 9:16

“About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Appoint him to lead my people Israel. He will save my people from the Philistines. I have seen the suffering of my people, and I have listened to their cry.”