Exodus 2:23 KJV
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Matthew Henry
- God hears the IsraelitesThe Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers the rod of the wicked to lie...
Thompson Chains
- SighingSee the chain from Job 3:24 · 6 links
- Crying to GodStarts here · next Exodus 17:4 · 11 links
- Bondage of IsraelLink 3 of 7 · next Exodus 5:4
Cross References
- James 5:4 Behold, 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.
- Acts 7:30 And 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.
- Genesis 18:20–21 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …
- Exodus 3:7–9 And 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; …
- Deuteronomy 26:6–7 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: …
- Acts 12:23–24 And 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. …
- Genesis 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
- Genesis 16:11 And 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.
- Exodus 4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
- Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
- Exodus 22:22–27 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. …
- Numbers 20:16 And 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:
- Deuteronomy 24:15 At 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.
- Judges 10:11–12 And 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? …
- Nehemiah 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
- Psalms 12:5 For 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.
- Psalms 18:6 In 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.
- Psalms 81:6–7 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. …
- Psalms 107:19–20 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. …
- Isaiah 5:7 For 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.
- Isaiah 19:20 And 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.
- Matthew 2:19–20 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, …
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Topics
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1571–1451 BC · Moses
Bible Dictionary
- EgyptThe land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture.
- IsraelThe name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and...
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
Strong’s Numbers
- And it came to pass in process הֵם hêm רַב rab
- of time יוֹם yôwm
- that the king מֶלֶךְ melek
- of Egypt מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim
- died מוּת mûwth
- and the children בֵּן bên
- of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
- sighed אָנַח ʼânach
- by reason of מִן min
- the bondage עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh
- and they cried זָעַק zâʻaq
- and their cry שַׁוְעָה shavʻâh
- came up עָלָה ʻâlâh
- unto God אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
- by reason of the bondage עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh
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