The expressions in this verse are special and emphatic. A new king is a phrase not found elsewhere. It is understood by most commentators …

There arose up a new king. — A king of a new dynasty might seem to be intended. Some suppose him to be Aahmes I., the fou…

Now there arose a new king. After more than one hundred years had happily passed in freedom and rest, the condition of the chosen people b…

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt

Stephen calls him another king (Acts 7:18), one of another fa…

The land of Egypt became a house of bondage to Israel. The place where we have been happy may soon become the place of our affliction; and that may…