Exodus 1:10
Give help! Let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it has come to pass, when war happens, that it has been joined, even it, to those hating us, and has fought against us, and has gone up out of the land.”
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1 Samuel 29:4And the heads of the Philistines are angry against him, and the heads of the Philistines say to him, “Send back the man, and he turns back to his place to where you have appointed him, and does not go down with us into battle, and is not for an adversary to us in battle; and with what does this one reconcile himself to his lord—is it not with the heads of those men?
Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, || Is the poor inflamed, || They are caught in schemes that they devised.
Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate His people, || To conspire against His servants.
Proverbs 16:25There is a way right before a man, || And its latter end—ways of death.
Acts 7:19this one, having dealt subtly with our family, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babies, that they might not live;
1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself; if anyone seems to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
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 →