Exodus 1:8
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
In Context
9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Cross References
Exodus 3:9And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel have come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Judges 2:10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them that did not know LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.
Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:2-8
Exodus Moses (the servant of the Lord in writing for him as well as in acting for him—with the pen of God as well as with the rod of God in his hand) having, in the first book of his history, preserved and transmitted the records of the church, while it existed in private families, comes, in this second book, to give us an account of its growth into a great nation; and, as the former furnishes us with the best economics, so this with the best politics. The beginning of the former book shows us how God formed the… Read the whole commentary →