Exodus 1:12-14

12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel awork as slaves 14and bmade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Exodus 1:22

22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, cEvery son that is born to the Hebrews
Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks  to the Hebrews
you shall cast into ethe Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exodus 5:7-19

7“You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’ 9Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

10So the ftaskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. 11Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” 12So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13The gtaskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” 14And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s htaskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”

15Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” 17But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” 19The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”

Judges 2:15

15Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, iand as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

Judges 10:8-12

8and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

10And the people of Israel jcried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because kwe have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.” 11And the Lord said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you lfrom the Egyptians and mfrom the Amorites, nfrom the Ammonites and ofrom the Philistines? 12The Sidonians also, and pthe Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I qsaved you out of their hand.

1 Samuel 13:19

19 rNow there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”

Lamentations 1:3

3 sJudah has gone into exile because of affliction
and hard servitude;
tshe dwells now among the nations,
ubut finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
Or  in the narrow passes

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