Exodus 1:8
And there rises a new king over Egypt, who has not known Joseph,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 3:9And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them,
Judges 2:10and all that generation have also been gathered to their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known YHWH, and even the work which He has done to Israel.
Ecclesiastes 9:15and there has been found in it a poor wise man, and he has delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not 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 →