The Ark Among the Flags

The plight of Israel, God's people, in Egypt had become sorry enough. A new king which knew not Joseph had risen. Frightened by the consideration that the people of the children of Israel excelled in might and that, so excelling, they would be sure to make common cause with the adversary if war should break out and that, as joined to the enemy, they would fight themselves free and get them out of the land, the king set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens with a view to...