Egypt in the Bible

Meaning: that troubles or oppresses; anguish

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And God said, 'I will judge the nation [i.e., Egypt] that enslaves them and [then] after my people are liberated, they will serve me in this place [i.e., Palestine].'

Verse ConceptsLeaving EgyptWorshipping God

Then Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him in Egypt 75 persons in all.

Verse ConceptsSeventies

Their bodies were carried back [from Egypt] to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had purchased in Shechem from the sons of Hamor for a sum of silver. [Note: "Shechem" was a town in Israel, the country which in New Testament times was known as Samaria].

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfThe Cave Of Machpelah

But the Hebrews refused [to acknowledge Moses as their leader], saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge [over us]?' [Nevertheless], God sent him [to Egypt] to be both a ruler and liberator [of the people] through the direction of [His] angel who appeared [to Moses] from the bush.

Verse ConceptsBurning bushMoses, Significance OfRejection Of GodIndividuals Saving OthersRejection

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life Eventsdoubt, results ofMonotony

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria [Egypt] and an effective speaker, who was well-grounded in the [Old Testament] Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityEloquenceMissionaries, Call OfApollosMissionary ExamplesUse Of The ScripturesRace

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And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their country another way. And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it.






































































And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.





























By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the displeasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.





































and was there till the death of Herod; that the word might be fulfilled, which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying; Out of Egypt have I called my son.



And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.








































































































And there came a famine on all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no provisions.

























judging the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect to the reward.








































And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it. And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt, and was there till the death of Herod; that the word might be fulfilled, which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying; Out of Egypt have I called my son. read more.
Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi. Thus was fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not. And when Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead that sought the young child's life.















And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.






And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years;

And this I say; that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.