Exodus 1:8

Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

In Context

7And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

9And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

Judges 2:10And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of 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 →

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