Exodus 3:9

Now the shouts of the people of Israel have come to me. Moreover, I have seen the oppression caused by the Egyptians.

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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

In Context

8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

10Now then, I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

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Cross References

Genesis 31:12He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see all the male goats that are breeding with the flock. They are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you.

Exodus 1:11So they put taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. The Israelites built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.

Exodus 1:22Pharaoh ordered all his people, “You must throw every son that is born into the river, but every daughter you will let live.”

Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites, and he understood their situation.

2 Kings 20:5“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor, says: “I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. I am about to heal you on the third day, and you will go up to the house of Yahweh.

Psalms 9:14Oh, that I might proclaim all your praise. 1 In the gates of the daughter of Zion 1 I will rejoice in your salvation! 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 3:8-11

Compassion of God for the Israelites. ( b. c. 1491.) 7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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