Exodus 1:14

The English Standar Version

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

1 Kings 12:14

he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."

Psalm 129:1

"Greatly[1] have they afflicted me from my youth" -- let Israel now say --

Psalm 68:13

though you men lie among the sheepfolds -- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Psalm 81:6

"I relieved your[3] shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:13

So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

Exodus 1:15

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

Exodus 2:23

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Exodus 20:2

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Exodus 6:9

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

Proverbs 28:15

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

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.

Isaiah 14:6

that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Isaiah 51:23

and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over."

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore what have I here," declares the LORD, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the LORD, "and continually all the day my name is despised.

Isaiah 58:6

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed[2] go free, and to break every yoke?

Leviticus 25:43

You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

Leviticus 25:46

You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:53

He shall treat him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.

Micah 3:3

who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!

Numbers 20:15

how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.

Acts 7:19

He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

Acts 7:34

I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'

Deuteronomy 26:6

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi;[1] call me Mara,[2] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.