Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

9He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Judges 2:10After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the LORD, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same 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 →

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