Exodus 1:18

New English Translation

Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Exodus 1:19

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women – for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Surely the king’s authority is absolute; no one can say to him, “What are you doing?”