Exo 1:13-14, 22, Judg 4:3, 6:2-6, 1Sa 13:17 | ESV | STEP | So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

Exodus 1:13-14

13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel ^awork as slaves 14 and ^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

22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, ^c“Every 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.”

Judges 4:3

3 Then the people of Israel ^fcried out to the Lord for help, for he had ^g900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

Judges 6:2-6

2 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and ^hthe caves and the strongholds. 3 For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and ⁱthe Amalekites and ^jthe people of the East would come up against them. 4 They would encamp against them ^kand devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. 5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come ^llike locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in. 6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel ^mcried out for help to the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:17

17 And ⁿraiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;