Exodus 1:14

Egypt makes Israel's lives bitter with hard labor in mortar, brick, and field. The oppression is total and merciless.

Cross-references · 24

• Acts 7:19He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
• Num 20:15how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,
• Exod 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
• Exod 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
• Ps 81:6“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
• Acts 7:34I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
• Isa 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Deut 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
• Isa 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
• Exod 1:13They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
• Ps 68:13Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
• Exod 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
• Nah 3:14Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
• Lev 25:46You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
• Lev 25:53He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
• Isa 52:5And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
• Gen 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
• Isa 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
• Mic 3:3You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
• Lev 25:43You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
• Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
• Jer 50:33–34This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
• Deut 26:6But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.
• Exod 5:7–21“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

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