Exodus 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

To afflict

Deuteronomy 26:6

Burdens

Psalm 105:13

Raamses

Genesis 47:11

Proverbs 27:4

General references

Exodus 5:5

Deuteronomy 26:6

Bible References

To afflict

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

Burdens

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their

hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your

labors!”

When you lie down among the sheepfolds,

You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.

“I

relieved his shoulder of the burden,

His hands were freed from the basket.

And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.

Raamses

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?

General references

Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!”

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.