Exodus 1:8

Then a new king came to power who didn't know anything about Joseph.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.

9He conferred with his fellow Egyptians and said, “Look at these Israelites—there are more of them than us, and they're more powerful than us.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9Listen! The cries of the Israelites have reached me, and I have seen how badly the Egyptians are mistreating them.

Judges 2:10Once that generation had passed away, the generation that followed did not know the Lord, or what he had done for Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15In that town lived a man who was wise, but poor. He saved the town by his wisdom. But no one remembered to thank 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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