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Exodus 1:14 KJV
Exodus · chapter 1 · verse 14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.Exodus 1:14 · King James Version
Exodus 1:14 in context
12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bondageʻăbôdâhwork of any kindH5656 →
- morterchômerproperly, a bubbling upH2563 →
- liveschayaliveH2416 →
- bricklᵉbênâha brickH3843 →
- fieldsâdeha fieldH7704 →
- serveʻâbadto workH5647 →
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The land of Egypt here, at length, becomes to Israel a house of bondage, though hitherto it had been a happy shelter and settlement for them. Note, The place of our satisfaction may soon become the place of our affliction, and that may prove the greatest cross to us of which we said, This same shall comfort us.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-14