Numbers 20:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Our fathers

Genesis 46:6

Acts 7:15

Dwelt

Genesis 15:13

Exodus 12:40

Vexed us

General references

Numbers 21:21

Bible References

Our fathers

And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he perished, he and our fathers.

Dwelt

And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Now the time that the sons of Israel dwelt in {the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan (LXX)} was four hundred and thirty years.

Vexed us

We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,

Is it a small thing that thou have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must make thyself also a ruler over us?

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.

And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and today, in making brick as formerly?

And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.

This man, who cunningly victimized our race, mistreated our fathers to make their infants be placed outside in order not to keep alive.

General references

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,