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.
Raamses
General references
Bible References
To afflict
Exodus 3:7
The Lord said, “I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.
Exodus 5:15
Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you deal like this with your servants?
Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Numbers 20:15
that our fathers (ancestors) went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians treated [both] us and our fathers badly.
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us.
Burdens
Exodus 2:11
One day, after Moses had grown [into adulthood], it happened that he went to his countrymen and looked [with compassion] at their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his countrymen.
Exodus 5:4
But the king of Egypt said to Moses and Aaron, “Why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
Psalm 68:13
When you lie down [to rest] among thesheepfolds,
You [Israel] are like the wings of a dove [of victory] overlaid with silver,
Its feathers glistening with gold [trophies taken from the enemy].
When you lie down [to rest] among the
You [Israel] are like the wings of a dove [of victory] overlaid with silver,
Its feathers glistening with gold [trophies taken from the enemy].
Psalm 81:6
“I removed the burden from his shoulder;
His hands were freed from the basket.
“I removed the burden from his shoulder;
His hands were freed from the basket.
Psalm 105:13
And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
Raamses
Genesis 47:11
So Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood,
But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood,
But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?
General references
Exodus 5:5
Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them stop their work!”
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us.