Quotes About Egypt

In the fifth year of Rehoboamís reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my masterís servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.í”

At the end of Josiahís reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakimís name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

Solomonís horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

And others will answer, ëBecause they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.í”

He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

Solomonís horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.

In the fifth year of Rehoboamís reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.