Esodo 1:11

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Ver. 11. To afflict them.] Because they would not "serve God with gladness of heart." Deu 28:47-48 For now they began to go awhoring after the idols of Egypt. Ezechiele 23:8 ; Ezechiele 20:5 ; Eze 20:7-8

And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities.] They built also those famous pyramids, as some think, a of which it is reported, that for the great height of them, a man cannot shoot an arrow so high as the midst of the lower tower, whereon the spire stands. b

a Bucholcer.

b Turk. Hist., fol. 544.