Exodus 1:21

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And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a lasting dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I approve, and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24 : 24 Now, as certainly as the LORD lives(he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
  • 2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 for you, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant,‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you. 28 Now, O Sovereign LORD, you are the true God! May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant! 29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O Sovereign LORD, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people– for they stand in fear before him.
  • Jer 35:2 : 2 “Go to the Rechabite community. Invite them to come into one of the side rooms of the LORD’s temple and offer them some wine to drink.”
  • 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the LORD will certainly establish a lasting dynasty for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD. May no evil be found in you all your days!
  • 2 Sam 7:11-13 : 11 and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you. 12 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in the LORD and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:15-20
    6 verses
    87%

    15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

    16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

    17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

    18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

    19The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

    20So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

  • Exod 1:22
    80%

    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

  • Exod 9:20
    73%

    20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

  • Gen 12:15
    70%

    15When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

  • Heb 11:23
    69%

    23By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

  • Exod 2:2
    69%

    2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

  • Exod 1:10-12
    3 verses
    69%

    10Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”

    11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

  • Acts 7:21
    68%

    21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

  • Exod 14:31
    68%

    31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

  • Gen 42:18
    68%

    18On the third day Joseph said to them,“Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

  • Exod 5:21
    68%

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

  • Jonah 1:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9He said to them,“I am a Hebrew! And I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

    10Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him,“What have you done?”(The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, because he had previously told them.)

  • Exod 13:15
    68%

    15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

  • Ps 113:9
    68%

    9He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!

  • Acts 7:10
    68%

    10and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

  • Gen 39:5
    67%

    5From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the LORD was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.

  • Job 21:9
    67%

    9Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

  • Ps 128:4
    67%

    4Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.

  • Exod 11:3
    67%

    3(Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)

  • Ps 105:38
    67%

    38Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

  • Gen 20:11
    67%

    11Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

  • Exod 2:24-25
    2 verses
    67%

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

    25God saw the Israelites, and God understood.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    67%

    28When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed divine wisdom to make judicial decisions.

  • Jonah 1:16
    67%

    16The men feared the LORD greatly, and earnestly vowed to offer lavish sacrifices to the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    67%

    40Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
    67%

    18They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house and some land and supplied him with food.

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

    17One of the women said,“My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

    18Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.

  • Exod 2:15
    67%

    15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

  • Exod 10:6
    66%

    6They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

  • Exod 12:29
    66%

    29The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

  • Acts 7:19
    66%

    19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.