Exodus 1:14
making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kinds of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.
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In Context
13The Egyptians worked the Israelites brutally,
15Then the king gave orders to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah.
Cross References
Exodus 1:13The Egyptians worked the Israelites brutally,
Exodus 5:7“Don't give them any more straw to make bricks like before. Have them go and collect the straw themselves.
Exodus 6:9Moses explained this to the Israelites but they did not listen to him, because they were so discouraged and because of the hard labor they were forced to do.
Leviticus 25:43Don't treat them with brutality. Have respect for your God.
Leviticus 25:53They are to live with their foreign owner just like a paid worker, hired from year to year, but see to it that the owner doesn't treat him brutally.
Deuteronomy 4:20Remember that the Lord took you and led you out of the iron furnace which was in Egypt to be his own people, just as you are today.
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 →