Exodus 5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 759] The king, was considered to be Horus, the son of Osiris. As the ruler of the Nile country, he was addressed by his subjects as “the good god.”…. Thus, his ideologies and his philosophies ultimately filtered down to the Egyptians, for they embraced the same warped perspectives as their king. When any mortal man, aspires to lead out in religious and political matters without God, the end of that nation will ultimately draw near, sooner or later.
But Rameses 2 was also a fool, because he picked a fight with the God of heaven, something which we as mortals must never, ever do. When God through Moses commanded the king to let His people go, he then went on the offensive, and instead increased in large measure, the already heavy burdens of God’s people. This is significant because it was the law of God that pharaoh picked a fight with God on.
In other words, he forced the Hebrews to work on the Sabbath day, contrary to the fourth commandment, which says: “Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of The Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work”. ] In their bondage the Israelites had to some extent lost the knowledge of God's law, and they had departed from its precepts. The Sabbath had been generally disregarded.
Exodus 5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7 You shall not give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!