Exodus 1:8

Then there rose vp a newe King in Egypt, who knewe not Ioseph.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 brought foorth fruite and encreased in aboundance, and were multiplied, and were exceeding mightie, so that the land was full of them.

9And he sayde vnto his people, Beholde, the people of the children of Israel are greater and mightier then we.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9And now lo, the crie of the children of Israel is come vnto me, and I haue also seene ye oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppresse them.

Judges 2:10And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore 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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