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• Kohath

  Kohath was the second son of Levi and the grandfather of Moses and Aaron. During the wilderness period his descendants, the Kohathites, were responsible for carrying the holy furnishings of the tabernacle, including the ark of the covenant, on their shoulders.

• Kohath

  Kohath was the second son of Levi, the son of Jacob, and the grandfather of Moses and Aaron. His descendants, the Kohathites, were responsible for carrying the most holy furnishings of the tabernacle, including the ark of the covenant, during the wilderness journey.

• Psalm 105:16–22

  This passage retells, as an act of God's providence, the story of Joseph, who was sold as a slave and imprisoned before becoming ruler in Egypt. It is frequently cited in discussions of suffering, refinement, and providence.

• Ark of Bulrushes

  The ark of bulrushes is the basket in which, according to Exodus 2, the mother of Moses placed her infant son and set him among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. Pharaoh's daughter discovered the basket, and Moses' life was spared.

• Pharaoh's Daughter

  Pharaoh's daughter is the Egyptian princess in Exodus 2 who drew the infant Moses out from among the reeds of the Nile and raised him as her own son. Scripture does not give her name.

• Egypt

  Egypt (Korean Bible form 애굽, Aegup) is the ancient nation in the Nile River valley of northeastern Africa. It is the setting of the Joseph narrative and the Exodus, and in Scripture it serves as a place symbolizing both bondage and deliverance.

• Flight into Egypt

  The Flight into Egypt is the event in which Joseph, warned in a dream that Herod the Great sought to kill the infant Jesus, took Mary and the child and fled to Egypt. After Herod's death the family returned and settled in Nazareth. The account appears only in Matthew 2.

• Anthony of Egypt

  Anthony of Egypt (c. 251–356) was an early church hermit who lived a solitary monastic life in the Egyptian desert. He is often called the "Father of Monasticism."

• Brook of Egypt

  The Brook of Egypt is a seasonal stream (wadi) named in the Old Testament as the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan. It is commonly identified with Wadi el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, though scholars differ on its exact location.

• Ten Plagues

  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.

• Shishak

  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.

• Alexandria

  Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt. It appears four times in the Bible, all in the Book of Acts. It was the hometown of Apollos and, according to tradition, the place where the Septuagint was translated.

• Pharaoh

  Pharaoh is a title for the kings of ancient Egypt. Several pharaohs appear in the Bible, the best known being the king in Exodus who refused to let Israel go and suffered the ten plagues.

• The Exodus

  The Exodus is the event in which the people of Israel, led by Moses, escaped slavery in Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and journeyed to Mount Sinai. It is regarded as the defining example of God's salvation in the Old Testament.

• Migdol

  Migdol is an Egyptian place-name derived from the Hebrew word for "tower" or "fortress." It appears as a site near Israel's encampment before the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, and in Jeremiah and Ezekiel it is used as a place-name marking the northern extremity of Egypt.

• Shihor

  Shihor is the name of an Egyptian watercourse mentioned four times in the Old Testament. It refers to the Nile or one of its branches and also appears in descriptions of the southern boundary of the land of Israel.

• Pithom

  Pithom is an Egyptian city mentioned alongside Raamses in Exodus 1:11 as one of the treasure cities that the children of Israel built for Pharaoh under forced labor.

• Psalm 114

  Psalm 114 is a short hymn of praise celebrating Israel's exodus from Egypt and its journey through the wilderness. It portrays the sea, the Jordan, and the mountains retreating and leaping before God, and it calls on the whole earth to tremble in the presence of the Lord.

• Seti I

  Seti I was the second pharaoh (the title of the kings of ancient Egypt) of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt in the thirteenth century BC. He was the father of Ramesses II, and his name comes up in discussions of the identity of the "Pharaoh" mentioned in the Book of Exodus.

• Isaiah 19

  Isaiah 19 is the part of the Book of Isaiah's oracles against the nations that concerns Egypt. After declaring that Egypt will collapse through civil strife and the drying up of the Nile, it looks ahead to a day when Egypt and Assyria will worship the LORD together with Israel and be blessed.