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
And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.
Exodus 5:15
And the foremen of the {Israelites} came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?
Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know} that your descendants shall be [as] aliens in a land {not their own}. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years.
Numbers 20:15
our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt {a long time}, and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor.
Burdens
Exodus 2:11
{And then} in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their {forced labor}, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, [one of] his brothers.
Exodus 5:4
And the king of Egypt said, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people from their work? Go to your {forced labor}!"
Psalm 68:13
Though you [men] lie down between the sheepfolds, [you will be like the] wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold."
Psalm 81:6
"I removed his shoulder from a burden. His hands were freed from [the] basket.
Psalm 105:13
and they wandered about {among the nations}, from [one] kingdom to another people,
Raamses
Genesis 47:11
And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.
Proverbs 27:4
Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
General references
Exodus 5:5
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor.