Exodus 1:8

But a new king arose over Mizraim who did not hold valid (or confirm) the decree of Joseph.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But the sons of Israel increased and propagated, and became great and very mighty, and the land was filled with them.

9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we:

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel ascendeth before Me, and the affliction is also revealed before Me wherewith the Mizraee afflict them.

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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