Exodus 2:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And 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.

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  • Luke 12:14 : 14 And he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?
  • Gen 19:9 : 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one came here to stay, and he will act as a judge: now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard against Lot, and came near to break the door.
  • Gen 37:8-9 : 8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth? 11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
  • Gen 37:19-20 : 19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. 20 Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
  • Num 16:3 : 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: why then do you lift yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
  • Num 16:13 : 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, unless you make yourself altogether a prince over us?
  • Ps 2:2-6 : 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and distress them in his deep displeasure. 6 Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
  • Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew upon the grass.
  • Gen 13:8 : 8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But those my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.
  • Acts 7:26-28 : 26 And 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? 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Will you kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man brings a snare; but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

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  • Acts 7:27-29
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    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.

  • Exod 2:15
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    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.

  • Exod 2:11-13
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    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?

  • Exod 5:20-22
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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.

    22And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Exod 3:11
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    11And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

  • Num 14:13
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    13And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

  • Acts 7:24
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    24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

    12Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

  • Num 16:13
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    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, unless you make yourself altogether a prince over us?

  • Exod 32:11-12
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    11Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    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.

  • Exod 4:19
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    19And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought your life.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • Exod 17:4
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    4And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

  • Exod 3:6
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    6Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

  • Exod 8:26
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    26And Moses said, It is not appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

  • Exod 33:12
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    12And Moses said to the LORD, See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people: and you have not let me know whom you will send with me.' Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.'

  • Exod 18:14-15
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    14When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening?

    15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • Jonah 1:10
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    10Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

  • Exod 1:9
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    9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

  • Num 27:15
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    15And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

  • Lev 24:13
    71%

    13And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Acts 7:35
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    35This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

  • Exod 20:19
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    19Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

  • Exod 10:28
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    28And Pharaoh said to him, Get away from me, take heed to yourself, see my face no more; for in the day you see my face, you shall die.

  • Exod 5:4
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    4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? Go back to your burdens.

  • Acts 7:32
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    32Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look.

  • Exod 1:18
    70%

    18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?