Acts 7:19
This man, who cunningly victimized our race, mistreated our fathers to make their infants be placed outside in order not to keep alive.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18until another king arose who had not known Joseph.
Cross References
Exodus 1:9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
Revelation 12:4And his tail drags the third part of the stars of the sky, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was going to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:18-30
Stephen's Address. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and… Read the whole commentary →