Exodus 1:18

New King James Version

So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Where the word of a king is, there is power; And who may say to him, “What are you doing?”

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

Exodus 1:19

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”