Pharaoh

Last week I wrote the first installment in our focus on kings of the bible. For part 1, I focused on Nimrod.

Today I turn our attention to Pharaoh.

There are several Pharaohs in the bible. They show up in Genesis, Exodus, 1 & 2 Kings, and Isaiah. It would be impossible for us to examine all of these Pharaohs in one blog post. So instead I’m going to focus on one Pharaoh — the unnamed Pharaoh of Exodus.

This Pharaoh appears throughout Exodus 1–14. And he ends up being the key Pharaoh figure for Scripture. It is this Pharaoh that most people think about. He is the…