Verse 12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:9 : 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
  • Ps 105:24 : 24 And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
  • John 12:19 : 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world is gone after him.
  • Acts 4:2-4 : 2 being sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward unto the morrow: for it was now eventide. 4 But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:28-33 : 28 saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree. 31 Him did God exalt with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 And we are witnesses of these things; and [so is] the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him. 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and minded to slay them.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.
  • Heb 12:6-9 : 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.