My People went down aforetime. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 46:6). See App-92.
the Assyrian. This was "another king" (Acts 7:18), the first of. new dynasty, the "new king" of Exodus 1:8, who (of course) "knew not Joseph". See notes on the above passages.
oppressed them. This refers to Exodus 1, and has nothing to do with the later Assyrian carrying away.
without cause. for nothing, groundlessly. This is. Divine comment. See John 15:25. Hebrew. 'ephes. See note on Isaiah 5:8.