Exodus 1:10
Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land.
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1 Samuel 29:4But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
Psalms 10:2The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
Acts 7:19*He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.
1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:9-15
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities,… Read the whole commentary →