Exo 1:10, 1Ki 12:8-9, Isa 30:1 | ESV | STEP | Come , let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply , and, if war breaks out , they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land .

Exodus 1:10

10 ^aCome, ^blet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

1 Kings 12:8-9

8 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 9 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

Isaiah 30:1

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

1 “Ah, ^cstubborn children,” declares the Lord,
^d“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make ^ean alliance, ^{▼▼Hebrew who weave a web} but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;