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 surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 5:15
The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, "Why are you treating your servants this way?
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Numbers 20:15
how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
Deuteronomy 26:6
But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
Burdens
Exodus 2:11
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
Exodus 5:4
The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!"
Psalm 68:13
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.
Psalm 81:6
It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
Psalm 105:13
they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
Raamses
Genesis 47:11
So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
General references
Exodus 5:5
Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."
Deuteronomy 26:6
But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.