Bible Cross References
their lives
Exodus 2:23
Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,
Exodus 6:9
Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him, because their spirit had been broken by their cruel slavery.
Genesis 15:13
The LORD said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.
Numbers 20:15
how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.
Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.
Ruth 1:20
"Don't call me Naomi," she answered; "call me Marah, because Almighty God has made my life bitter.
Acts 7:19
He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.
Acts 7:34
I have seen the cruel suffering of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans, and I have come down to set them free. Come now; I will send you to Egypt.'
in mortar
Psalm 68:13
figures of doves covered with silver, whose wings glittered with fine gold. (Why did some of you stay among the sheep pens on the day of battle?)
Psalm 81:6
"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.
Nahum 3:14
Draw water to prepare for a siege, and strengthen your fortresses! Trample the clay to make bricks, and get the brick molds ready!
was with rigour
Exodus 1:13
and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.
Exodus 5:7-21
7
"Stop giving the people straw for making bricks. Make them go and find it for themselves.
8
But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before, not one brick less. They don't have enough work to do, and that is why they keep asking me to let them go and offer sacrifices to their God!
9
Make them work harder and keep them busy, so that they won't have time to listen to a pack of lies."
10
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites, "The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw.
11
He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
12
So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw.
13
The slave drivers kept trying to force them to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made when they were given straw.
14
The Egyptian slave drivers beat the Israelite foremen, whom they had put in charge of the work. They demanded, "Why aren't you people making the same number of bricks that you made before?"
15
Then the foremen went to the king and complained, "Why do you do this to us, Your Majesty?
16
We are given no straw, but we are still ordered to make bricks! And now we are being beaten. It is your people that are at fault."
17
The king answered, "You are lazy and don't want to work, and that is why you ask me to let you go and offer sacrifices to the LORD.
18
Now get back to work! You will not be given any straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
19
The foremen realized that they were in trouble when they were told that they had to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made before.
20
As they were leaving, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them.
21
They said to Moses and Aaron, "The LORD has seen what you have done and will punish you for making the king and his officers hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us."
Exodus 20:2
"I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves.
Leviticus 25:43
Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God.
Leviticus 25:46
and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.
Leviticus 25:53
as if they had been hired on an annual basis. Their master must not treat them harshly.
Isaiah 14:6
who angrily oppressed the peoples and never stopped persecuting the nations they had conquered.
Isaiah 51:23
I will give it to those who oppressed you, to those who made you lie down in the streets and trampled on you as if you were dirt."
Isaiah 52:5
And now in Babylonia the same thing has happened: you are captives, and nothing was paid for you. Those who rule over you boast and brag and constantly show contempt for me.
Isaiah 58:6
"The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.
Jeremiah 50:33
The LORD Almighty says, "The people of Israel and of Judah are oppressed. All who captured them are guarding them closely and will not let them go.
Jeremiah 50:34
But the one who will rescue them is strong---his name is the LORD Almighty. He himself will take up their cause and will bring peace to the earth, but trouble to the people of Babylonia."
Micah 3:3
You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.