Pithom
Landmark · Pithom → eastern delta, Egypt
One of the store cities Israel was forced to build for Pharaoh.
People
- Pharaoh
- Moses
- Aaron
At a glance
- Realm
- Egypt (eastern delta)
- Role
- Store city built by forced labor
- Peoples
- Egyptians and Israelite laborers
- First mention
- Exodus 1 (its only mention)
The story
Pithom was one of the two store cities, with Raamses, that the Israelites were forced to build for Pharaoh in the eastern delta. It was a walled town of granaries and supply, raised with the mortar and brick of Israel’s bondage.
Scripture names Pithom only once, yet it carries the whole weight of the oppression, the bricks and the bitter service. Out of that groaning the people cried, and God heard, and remembered His covenant, and moved to bring them out.