Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Art » Primitive » Of the brickmaker
They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.
Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
Arts of the » Brick-maker
They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.
Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
Brick » Made by israelites
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
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Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God. Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. read more.
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks. The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told: Do not make fewer bricks each day than you are supposed to.
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks. The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told: Do not make fewer bricks each day than you are supposed to.
Take some large stones, and bury them under the brick pavement at the entrance to the Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes. Do this while the people of Judah watch you.
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Draw (pump) water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the clay pits and trample the clay! Grab hold of the brick mold!
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Cruelty » Instances of » Egyptians to the israelites
Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen: Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God. read more.
Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
Oppression » Examples of
The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.'
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They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.
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Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
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The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.
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I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them.
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You have dishonored the poor man. Do the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?
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Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.
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Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
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I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.
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Servant » Instances of » israelites
Beware that you do not forget Jehovah, for he brought you out of Egypt your house of bondage.
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We must outsmart them or they will increase in number. If war breaks out they will leave the country and join our enemies to fight against us. 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. However the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number and spread out. The Egyptians could not stand them any longer. read more.
They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves. They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work. The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives. Shiphrah and Puah were among them. He said: When you help the Hebrew women give birth on the birth stool, if it is a son you shall put him to death. If it is a daughter, then she shall live. The midwives respected God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them. They let the boys live. So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said: Why have you let the boys live? The midwives replied to Pharaoh: Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women. They are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them. God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. Because the midwives respected God, He established households for them. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.
They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves. They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work. The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives. Shiphrah and Puah were among them. He said: When you help the Hebrew women give birth on the birth stool, if it is a son you shall put him to death. If it is a daughter, then she shall live. The midwives respected God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them. They let the boys live. So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said: Why have you let the boys live? The midwives replied to Pharaoh: Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women. They are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them. God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. Because the midwives respected God, He established households for them. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.
Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God. Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. read more.
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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?
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. 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?
You will answer your son: 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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