Exodus 1:8

And there arose up another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them.

9And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we:

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me, and I have seen the affliction with which the Egyptians afflict them.

Judges 2:10And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15And should find in it a poor wise man, 1 And he should save the city through his wisdom: 1 Yet no man would remember that poor man. 1

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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