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5 articles found for “Raamses”

• Rameses

  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.

• 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.

• Store City

  A store city was a city built to store a nation's grain, supplies, weapons, and similar provisions. Pithom and Raamses, which the Israelites built for Pharaoh according to Exodus 1:11, are the best-known examples.

• Ramesses II

  Ramesses II was a pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned for more than sixty years in the thirteenth century BC. Because he shares his name with Raamses, the store city mentioned in Exodus, he is frequently discussed in debates over the identity of the pharaoh of the Exodus.

• Exodus 12

  Exodus 12 records the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn of Egypt; the institution of the ordinances of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and Israel's departure from Raamses and exodus from Egypt.