Exodus 1:21

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

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  • 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24 : 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
  • 2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. 28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: 29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
  • Jer 35:2 : 2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
  • 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
  • 2 Sam 7:11-13 : 11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house. 12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

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  • Exod 1:15-20
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    15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

    16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

    17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

    18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

    19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

    20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

  • Exod 1:22
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    22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

  • Exod 9:20
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    20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

  • Gen 12:15
    70%

    15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

  • Heb 11:23
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    23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

  • Exod 2:2
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    2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

  • Exod 1:10-12
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    10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

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

    12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

  • Gen 20:18
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    18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed ceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

  • Exod 14:31
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    31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

  • Gen 42:18
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    18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

  • Exod 5:21
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    21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

  • Jonah 1:9-10
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    9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

    10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

  • Exod 13:15
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    15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

  • Ps 113:9
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    9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

  • Acts 7:10
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    10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Gen 39:5
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    5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

  • Job 21:9
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    9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

  • Ps 128:4
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    4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

  • Exod 11:3
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    3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

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    38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

  • Gen 20:11
    67%

    11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

  • Exod 2:24-25
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    67%

    24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

    25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    67%

    28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

  • Jonah 1:16
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    16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
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    40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
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    18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

    18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

  • Exod 2:15
    67%

    15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

  • Exod 10:6
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    6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

  • Exod 12:29
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    29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

  • Acts 7:19
    66%

    19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.