Pithom (also spelled Pitom) was one of the two store cities that the Israelites were forced to build during their slavery in Egypt. Although Pithom is not a person but a city, it is mentioned in the Bible in connection with the oppression of the people of Israel under Pharaoh. The city is an important symbol of the suffering the Israelites endured before their deliverance from Egypt.
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Building Store Cities During Slavery
The Israelites were put to forced labor and had to build the store cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. This was part of the systematic oppression of the Israelite people in Egypt.
Pharaoh feared the growing Israelite population and imposed hard forced labor on them, including the construction of Pithom. This oppression became part of the background for God's call to Moses.
10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will keep multiplying, and if war breaks out they will join our enemies, fight against us, and go up out of the land.
23A long time passed, and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and their cry for help rose up to God from their bondage.
God revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush and promised to deliver the Israelites from the oppression they suffered in Egypt, where the construction of Pithom was a central part of their slavery.
7The LORD said, "I have surely seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know their sufferings.
8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
31He summoned Moses and Aaron that night and said, "Get up, go out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have said.