Exodus 5:9

New International Version

Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?

Job 16:3

Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

Exodus 5:10

Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

Exodus 5:8

But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’

Zechariah 1:6

But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.’ ”

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.