EGYPTIANS

Passages on this topic · 115

• Genesis 10:6

  The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:13

  Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

• Genesis 10:14

  Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 12:11

  When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 12:20

  Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

• Genesis 37:36

  The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 46:34

  that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

• Genesis 50:2

  Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:26

  So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 12:30

  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

• Exodus 12:31

  He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

• Exodus 12:32

  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

• Exodus 12:34

  The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

• Exodus 12:35

  The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

• Exodus 12:36

  Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

• Exodus 14:5

  The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

• Exodus 14:6

  He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;

• Exodus 14:7

  and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

• Exodus 14:8

  Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

• Exodus 14:9

  The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

• Exodus 14:10

  When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 14:12

  Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

• Exodus 14:13

  Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

• Exodus 14:14

  Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Exodus 14:16

  Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.

• Exodus 14:17

  Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:18

  The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:19

  The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

• Exodus 14:20

  It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.

• Exodus 14:21

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

• Exodus 14:22

  The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

• Exodus 14:25

  He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

• Exodus 14:26

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

• Exodus 14:28

  The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

• Exodus 14:29

  But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:30

  Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

• Deuteronomy 23:7

  You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

• Deuteronomy 23:8

  The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 4:30

  Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

• 1 Kings 14:25

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

• 1 Kings 14:26

  and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

• 2 Kings 23:29

  In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

• 2 Kings 23:30

  His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

• 2 Kings 23:31

  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 2 Kings 23:32

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.

• 2 Kings 23:33

  Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

• 2 Kings 23:34

  Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

• 2 Kings 23:35

  Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

• 2 Chronicles 12:2

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

• 2 Chronicles 12:3

  with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

• 2 Chronicles 12:4

  He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 12:5

  Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Yahweh says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”

• 2 Chronicles 12:6

  Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

• 2 Chronicles 12:7

  When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

• 2 Chronicles 12:8

  Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

• 2 Chronicles 12:9

  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

• 2 Chronicles 35:20

  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.

• 2 Chronicles 35:21

  But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:22

  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

• 2 Chronicles 35:23

  The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

• 2 Chronicles 35:24

  So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

• 2 Chronicles 36:3

  The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

• 2 Chronicles 36:4

  The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

• Psalms 78:43

  how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

• Psalms 78:44

  he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

• Psalms 78:45

  He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

• Psalms 78:46

  He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

• Psalms 78:47

  He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

• Psalms 78:48

  He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

• Psalms 78:49

  He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

• Psalms 78:50

  He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

• Psalms 78:51

  and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

• Psalms 105:36

  He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

• Psalms 106:11

  The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

• Psalms 136:10

  To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;

• Isaiah 19:18

  In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”

• Isaiah 30:2

  who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

• Isaiah 31:1

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

• Isaiah 36:6

  Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• Jeremiah 37:5

  Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 37:6

  Then came Yahweh’s word to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

• Jeremiah 37:7

  “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

• Jeremiah 37:8

  The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”’

• Jeremiah 37:9

  “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us;” for they shall not depart.

• Jeremiah 37:10

  For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’”

• Jeremiah 37:11

  When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

• Ezekiel 17:15

  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

• Ezekiel 29:6

  All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 29:12

  I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”

• Ezekiel 29:13

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;

• Ezekiel 29:14

  and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

• Ezekiel 29:15

  It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

• Ezekiel 30:23

  I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

• Ezekiel 30:26

  I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Acts 21:38

  Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

• Hebrews 11:29

  By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.