
Israelite Slaves in Egypt

Acts 21:37 As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, … “Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness?”
Genesis 41:45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.
Matthew 2:14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
A small section of the Achaemenid Palaces of Darius I in Susa, Persia, constructed by Babylonian craftsmen when Babylon was part of the world’s first true empire
From Nineveh (modern-day Mosul Governorate, Iraq), Room XXXVI of the South-West Palace, panels 9-10. The British Museum, London. Photo © Osama S. M. Amin.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 … So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.