Exodus 13:17–18 — "God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter…"
Empires
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites...
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."
Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
The Ten Plagues — God demonstrates His power over each of Egypt's gods through a systematic series of judgments.
Each plague targets a specific Egyptian deity: the Nile (Hapi), frogs (Heqet), sun (Ra), etc.
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.
From the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north — all this was considered Canaanite territory.
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots.
While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in ...
So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the LORD and went as far as Tahpanhes.
He will also seize their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold and carry them off to Egypt.
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt."