Overview
Rameses (also spelled Raamses) was a significant city in Egypt where the Israelites were enslaved and forced to labor. The city served as a strategic storage center for Pharaoh's grain and supplies. It became historically important as the staging point from which Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt during the Exodus.
Key Scriptures
"Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses" (Exodus 1:11, ESV).
"And Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly" (Genesis 47:11, ESV).
"The people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children" (Exodus 12:37, ESV).
Application
Rameses reminds us that God remembers His people in their affliction and fulfills His promises of deliverance in His perfect timing.