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

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters; for I know their sorrows;

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dealest thou thus with thy servants?

And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians afflicted us, and our fathers:

And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Burdens

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, hinder the people from their works; go you to your burdens.

Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

Raamses

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

General references

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: