Exodus 5:5

Tree of Life Version

Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now so numerous, yet you would have them rest from their labors?”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

and 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 chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 10:11

Now, whereas my father laid a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will do so with scorpions.’”

Exodus 2:11

Now it happened in those days, after Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He noticed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Proverbs 14:28

A large population is a king’s glory, but lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.