Exodus 2:23

As years pass, the king of Egypt dies, and Israel cries out under their bondage, and their cry rises to God. Their suffering becomes a prayer that reaches heaven.

Cross-references · 22

• Gen 18:20–21And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
• Jas 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Exod 3:7–9And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Deut 26:6–7And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
• Acts 7:30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Exod 22:22–27Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
• Gen 16:11And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
• Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Isa 19:20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
• Neh 9:9And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
• Ps 107:19–20Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
• Acts 12:23–24And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Judg 10:11–12And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
• Gen 4:10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
• Deut 24:15At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Exod 4:19And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
• Num 20:16And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
• Ps 81:6–7I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
• Matt 2:19–20But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
• Exod 7:7And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

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