Exodus 1:8

And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

9and he saith unto his people, 'Lo, the people of the sons of Israel [is] more numerous and mighty than we;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9'And now, lo, the cry of the sons of Israel hath come in unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them,

Judges 2:10and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not 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 →

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