Exodus 1:8

(But) A new king, that knew not Joseph, rose [up] in the meantime on Egypt,

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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 sons of Israel + 1:7 The phrase ‘sons of Israel’ sometimes refers to the twelve sons of Jacob (whose name God changed to ‘Israel’), sometimes to only the Israelite men, and other times to all of the people of Israel, the twelve tribes of Israel, ‘the Israelites’. increased, and were multiplied as burgeoning, and they were made strong greatly, and filled the land. (the Israelites increased, and were multiplied like burgeonings, and they were made very strong, and filled the land.)

9and said to his people, Lo! the people of the sons of Israel is much, and stronger than we;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9Therefore the cry of the sons of Israel came to me, and I saw the torment of them, by which they be oppressed of the Egyptians. (And so the cry of the Israelites came to me, and I saw their torment, and how they were oppressed by the Egyptians.)

Judges 2:10And all that generation was gathered to their fathers; and other men of Israel rose up, that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done with Israel. (And all that generation died; and other men rose up, who did not know the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.)

Ecclesiastes 9:15And a poor man and a wise was found therein; and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man bethought afterward on that poor man. (And a poor but wise man was found there; and he saved the city by his wisdom, but afterward no one thought much about 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 →

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