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
Dwelt
General references
Bible References
Our fathers
Genesis 46:6
They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his family arrived in Egypt.
Acts 7:15
Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
Dwelt
Genesis 15:13
Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.
Exodus 12:40
The Israelites had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.
Vexed us
Numbers 11:5
Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
Numbers 16:13
Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?
Exodus 1:11
So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus 5:14
The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before?
Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us. They imposed hard labor on us.
Acts 7:19
He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our fathers so that they cast out their young children and they did not survive.
General references
Numbers 21:21
The people of Israel sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon to say: