Exodus 1:14

New International Version

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

1 Kings 12:14

he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

Psalm 129:1

“They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say;

Psalm 68:13

Even while you sleep among the sheep pens, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

Psalm 81:6

“I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.

Exodus 1:11

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:13

and worked them ruthlessly.

Exodus 1:15

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

Exodus 2:23

During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Exodus 6:9

Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.

Isaiah 14:6

which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”

Isaiah 52:5

“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,” declares the Lord. “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Leviticus 25:43

Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

Leviticus 25:46

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:53

They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

Micah 3:3

who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

Numbers 20:15

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

Acts 7:19

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

Acts 7:34

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

Deuteronomy 26:6

But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

Ruth 1:20

“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.