Acts 7:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

This king dealt shrewdly with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, forcing them to expose their infants so that they might not live.

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  • Exod 1:9-9 : 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. 11 Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, which they made them serve, was with rigor. 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools; if it is a son, then you shall kill him: but if it is a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive? 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and give birth before the midwives come to them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.
  • Ps 105:25 : 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants.
  • Ps 129:1-3 : 1 Many times have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2 Many times have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
  • Rev 12:4-5 : 4 His tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she gave birth to a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
  • Ps 83:4-5 : 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. 5 For they have conspired together with one accord: they are allied against you:

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    17But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

    18Until another king arose who did not know Joseph.

  • Acts 7:20-21
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    20At this time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and was brought up in his father's house for three months;

    21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.

  • Exod 1:8-10
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    8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

    9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

    10Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.

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    6And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.

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    6And the Egyptians mistreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

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    9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,

    10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

    11Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

    12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

  • Exod 1:16-20
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    16And he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools; if it is a son, then you shall kill him: but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

    17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

    18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?

    19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and give birth before the midwives come to them.

    20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.

  • Exod 1:22
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    22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.

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    25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

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    11And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

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    24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

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    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

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    2And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

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    18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor:

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    7Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.