Exodus 1:8
Then arose a new king over Egypt,—who had not known Joseph.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
In Context
9So he said, unto his people, Lo! the people of the sons of Israel are too many and mighty for us!
Cross References
Exodus 3:9Now, therefore, lo! the outcry of the sons of Israel, hath come in unto me,—moreover also, I have seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Judges 2:10All that generation also, were gathered unto their fathers,—and there arose another generation, after them, who had not known Yahweh, nor even the work which he had wrought for Israel.
Ecclesiastes 9:15but there was found therein, a man, poor [but] wise, and, he, delivered the city by his wisdom,—yet, no one, remembered that 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 →