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Exodus 2:23

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¶ 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.

And it came to pass in process {H1992}{H7227} of time {H3117}, that the king {H4428} of Egypt {H4714} died {H4191}: and the children {H1121} of Israel {H3478} sighed {H584} by reason of {H4480} the bondage {H5656}, and they cried {H2199}, and their cry {H7775} came up {H5927} unto God {H430} by reason of the bondage {H5656}.

Sometime during those many years the king of Egypt died, but the people of Isra'el still groaned under the yoke of slavery, and they cried out, and their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, 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.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 18:20 (13 votes)

    And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

  • Genesis 18:21 (13 votes)

    I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

  • James 5:4 (12 votes)

    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 (10 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Exodus 3:7 (10 votes)

    ¶ 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;

  • Exodus 3:9 (10 votes)

    Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

  • Exodus 22:22 (9 votes)

    Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.