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Exodus 10
[Bible]Exodus 10 records the eighth plague on Egypt, locusts, and the ninth, darkness. Pharaoh offers to let Israel go on certain conditions but finally drives Moses from his presence.
Exodus 14
[Bible]Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.
Exodus 11
[Bible]Exodus 11 is the chapter in which God announces the final plague to Moses, and Moses declares to Pharaoh that all the firstborn in Egypt will die.
Ezekiel 30
[Bible]Ezekiel 30 contains a prophecy that "the day of the LORD" is coming upon Egypt and its allies (vv. 1–19) and a prophecy that God will break Pharaoh's arms and strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (vv. 20–26).
Ezekiel 32
[Bible]Ezekiel 32 is the final chapter of the oracles against the nations in the Book of Ezekiel. It contains two laments over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and depicts Pharaoh descending to Sheol to lie with the nations that perished before him.
Genubath
[People]Genubath was the son of Hadad, a member of the Edomite royal house, and the sister of Tahpenes, queen of Egypt. He is mentioned only once, in 1 Kings 11:20, which records that he was raised in Pharaoh's household among Pharaoh's sons.
Fine Linen
[Bible]Fine linen is a cloth finely woven from thin threads spun from flax. In the Bible it appears as the garment of priests, the clothing of honored persons, and the cloth used to wrap the dead for burial. In the Book of Revelation it represents the righteous conduct of the saints.
Exodus 6:2–3
[Bible Verses]Exodus 6:2–3 is the passage in which God tells Moses that he is the LORD (YHWH). He says that he appeared to the patriarchs as "God Almighty" but was not known to them by the name LORD. Because the name "LORD" already appears in Genesis, the passage is often cited in discussions of the revelation of God's name and the formation of the Pentateuch.
Amarna Letters
[History]The Amarna Letters are a collection of clay-tablet correspondence discovered in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt. Written in cuneiform, they were exchanged in the mid-fourteenth century BC between the Egyptian royal court and both the great powers of the ancient Near East and the rulers of the city-states of Canaan.
Ten Plagues
[Bible]The Ten Plagues are the ten judgments that God brought upon Egypt through Moses and Aaron, as recorded in Exodus 7–12. After the final plague, the death of the firstborn, and the institution of the Passover, Israel departs from Egypt.
Exodus 14:13–14
[Bible Verses]Exodus 14:13–14 records the words Moses spoke at the Red Sea to the people of Israel, who were terrified by the pursuing Egyptian army. He told them not to fear but to stand still and see, because God would fight for them and save them. The passage is often cited as an exhortation to trust God in times of crisis.
Rameses
[Bible]Rameses was the name of a region and a city in the eastern Nile Delta of ancient Egypt. The children of Israel built it as a store city while in bondage, and it was the starting point of their march at the Exodus.
Exodus 15
[Bible]Exodus 15 contains the song of deliverance sung by Moses and Israel after crossing the Red Sea, Miriam's answering song, and the opening scene of the wilderness journey, in which the bitter water of Marah is made sweet and the people arrive at Elim.
Romans 9:20-21
[Bible Verses]A passage asserting the potter's authority over the clay, declaring that the thing formed cannot say to him that formed it, "Why hast thou made me thus?" As the heart of Romans 9, which addresses God's sovereign election, it carries more weight than perhaps any other text in debates over predestination.
Shishak
[People]Shishak was a king of Egypt in the time of Solomon and Rehoboam. He gave refuge to Jeroboam when Jeroboam fled from Solomon, and in the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign he invaded Judah and carried off the treasures of the temple and the royal palace.
Song of Moses
[Bible]The Song of Moses refers to two Old Testament poems attributed to Moses: the hymn of deliverance sung after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15) and the song bearing witness to the covenant that he delivered before his death (Deuteronomy 32).
Taxes
[Bible]Taxes are money or goods collected from the people by a state or by the temple. Scripture mentions taxes under Egypt, the Israelite monarchy, Persia, and Rome, as well as the temple tax. The subject is best known through the saying "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Potipherah
[People]Potipherah is a priest of On in Egypt mentioned in Genesis. He was the father of Asenath, the wife of Joseph, and the maternal grandfather of Manasseh and Ephraim.
Potiphar's Wife
[People]Potiphar's wife is an Egyptian woman in Genesis 39 who tried to seduce Joseph, her husband's servant, and, when he refused her, falsely accused him and had him sent to prison. The Bible does not give her name.
On
[Bible]On was an ancient Egyptian city. According to Genesis, Poti-pherah, the father of Joseph's wife Asenath, was a priest there. The city is better known by its Greek name, Heliopolis.