God Hears Israel's Groaning

Exodus 2

²³ Now it happened _e in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel _f groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and _g their cry came up to God because of the bondage. ²⁴ So God _h heard their groaning, and God _i remembered His _j covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ And God _k looked upon the children of Israel, and God _l acknowledged them.

1. Cross References
   Acts 7:34
   "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 26:7
   Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 3:7
   And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
   Exodus 3:9
   Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
   James 5:4
   Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 6:5
   And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
   Acts 7:34
   "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 15:13
   Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that you...
   Genesis 22:16 - 18
   And said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LOR...
   Genesis 26:2 - 5
   Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not...
   Genesis 28:13 - 15
   And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "...
   Psalms 105:8
   He remembers His covenant forever, The word whi...
   Psalms 105:42
   For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham...
   
6. Cross References
   Genesis 12:1 - 3
   Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
   Genesis 15:14
   And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
   Genesis 17:1 - 14
   When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
   
7. Cross References
   Exodus 4:31
   So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
   Luke 1:25
   "Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."
   Acts 7:34
   "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'
   
8. Cross References
   Exodus 3:7
   And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.