Exodus 1:8

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

9And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Judges 2:10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, that knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which He had wrought for Israel.

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