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 18:20–21Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Exod 3:7–9Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• Deut 26:6–7The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
• Acts 7:30“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Exod 22:22–27“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
• Gen 16:11Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
• Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
• Ps 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
• Isa 19:20It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
• Neh 9:9“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
• Ps 107:19–20Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
• Acts 12:23–24Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Judg 10:11–12Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
• Gen 4:10Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
• Deut 24:15In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
• Exod 4:19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
• Num 20:16When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
• Ps 81:6–7“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
• Matt 2:19–20But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
• Exod 7:7Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

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