Exodus 1:8

And there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

Darby Translation

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 fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them.

9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9And now behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me; and I have also 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, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that 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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