Nile valley · Today: Egypt
Egypt in the Bible
Egypt is refuge and prison by turns: grain in famine for Jacob's family, four centuries of slavery, the exodus, and later the country Joseph and Mary flee to with the child. Prophets keep warning Judah not to lean on it.
Archaeology
The Merneptah stele of about 1208 BC carries the earliest known mention of Israel outside the Bible, and Semitic settlement in the eastern Delta at Tell el-Dab'a matches the Goshen described in Genesis.
Verses mentioning Egypt
614 occurrences across 560 verses in the King James Version.
- Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Read in context - Acts 7:39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Read in context - Acts 7:40
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Read in context - Acts 13:17
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Read in context - Hebrews 3:16
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Read in context - Hebrews 8:9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Read in context - Hebrews 11:26
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. of Christ: or, for Christ
Read in context - Hebrews 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Read in context - Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Read in context - Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
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