Acts 7:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

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  • John 18:10-11 : 10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. 11 Then Jesus said to Peter, Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which my Father has given me?
  • John 18:25-27 : 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore, they said to him, Are you not also one of his disciples? He denied it and said, I am not. 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with him? 27 Peter then denied again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
  • Acts 7:28 : 28 Will you kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

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    82%

    11And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

    12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

    13And when he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, Why are you hitting your fellow?

    14And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid and said, Surely this thing is known.

    15When Pharaoh heard of this, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

  • Acts 7:18-23
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    81%

    18Until another king arose who did not know Joseph.

    19This king dealt shrewdly with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, forcing them to expose their infants so that they might not live.

    20At this time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and was brought up in his father's house for three months;

    21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.

    22And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.

    23And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

  • Acts 7:25-29
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    78%

    25For he supposed his brothers would understand that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

    26And the next day he showed himself to them as they were quarreling, and would have set them at peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?

    27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

    28Will you kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

    29Then Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

  • Acts 7:34
    70%

    34I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.

  • Lev 24:10
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    10And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel, and this son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought together in the camp;

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way as they came out from Pharaoh:

    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

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    24By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

  • Exod 2:19
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    19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew water enough for us and watered the flock.

  • Exod 3:7
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    7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;

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

  • Acts 7:36
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    36He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Exod 3:9
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    9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

  • 2 Sam 23:21
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    21And he killed an Egyptian, a handsome man; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6And the Egyptians mistreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

  • Heb 11:27
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    27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him,

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    4And the name of the other was Eliezer, for the God of my father, he said, was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

  • Exod 32:12
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    12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people.

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    24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

  • Josh 24:7
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    7And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Num 35:21
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    21Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

  • Exod 11:3
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    3And the LORD gave the people favor 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.

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.