Pharaoh dies; Israel cries out to God
The king who had sought Moses' life died, but the slavery went on, and Israel's groaning rose to God, who remembered his covenant.
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 (World English Bible)
Exodus pauses to show what was happening in heaven while Moses was in Midian: God heard, God remembered, God saw, and God knew. The promise to Abraham that his descendants would be brought out of a foreign land (Genesis 15:13–14) was about to be kept.
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Dating notes
Ussher dates the king's death to about 1511 BC by identifying him with Ramesses Miamun from Manetho's king list. Scripture says only that it happened “in the course of those many days.”