Exodus 1:8
In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 3:9For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.
Judges 2:10And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.
Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward 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 →