Thematic Bible: Carried into bondage
Thematic Bible
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Carried into bondage
Now it happened after a long time [about forty years] that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel (Jacob) groaned and sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out. And their cry for help because of their bondage ascended to God.
So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And the sons of Israel built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
One day, after Moses had grown [into adulthood], it happened that he went to his countrymen and looked [with compassion] at their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his countrymen.
But the king of Egypt said to Moses and Aaron, “Why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
that our fathers (ancestors) went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians treated [both] us and our fathers badly.
He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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- Abuse Of Authority, Examples Of
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- Captivity, Of Israel
- Cries Of Distress To God
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- Death Of Office Holders
- Doing One's Work
- Forced Labour
- God, Human Descriptions Of
- Groups Of Slaves
- Growing Up
- Hating Peoples
- Making Slaves