Exo 1:8-10 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Exod 1:8-10: 1:8-10 From about 1650 until about 1550 BC , the northern part of Egypt, where the Israelites lived, was ruled by Semitic invaders that the Egyptians called “shepherd kings,” or Hyksos. Many scholars believe that these kings were sympathetic to the Israelites and that the Israelites may even have been allied with them. It is easy to imagine that, when these invaders were finally expelled about 1540 BC , the new rulers (Egypt’s 18 th Dynasty) were very suspicious of any Semites, including the Israelites, who remained in the country.

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Summary for Exod 1:8-10: 1:8-10 ^a From about 1650 until about 1550 BC, the northern part of Egypt, where the Israelites lived, was ruled by Semitic invaders that the Egyptians called “shepherd kings,” or Hyksos. Many scholars believe that these kings were sympathetic to the Israelites and that the Israelites may even have been allied with them. It is easy to imagine that, when these invaders were finally expelled about 1540 BC, the new rulers (Egypt’s 18^th Dynasty) were very suspicious of any Semites, including the Israelites, who remained in the country.
1:10 ^b The people whom Pharaoh referred to as our enemies would almost certainly have been the remnants of the Hyksos (see study note on 1:8-10).