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
Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 5:15
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
Burdens
Exodus 2:11
It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exodus 5:4
The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"
Psalm 68:13
while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
Psalm 81:6
"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
Psalm 105:13
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
Raamses
Genesis 47:11
Joseph placed 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 commanded.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
General references
Exodus 5:5
Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: