Exodus 18:7

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Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

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  • Gen 29:13 : 13 When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.
  • 2 Sam 11:7 : 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going.
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.
  • Gen 14:17 : 17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh(known as the King’s Valley).
  • Gen 18:2 : 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
  • Gen 19:1 : 1 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!
  • Luke 7:45 : 45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,
  • Acts 28:15 : 15 The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.
  • Gen 31:28 : 28 You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!
  • Gen 33:3-7 : 3 But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept. 5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked,“Who are these people with you?” Jacob replied,“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 The female servants came forward with their children and bowed down. 7 Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.
  • Gen 43:27-28 : 27 He asked them how they were doing. Then he said,“Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?” 28 “Your servant our father is well,” they replied.“He is still alive.” They bowed down in humility.
  • Gen 45:15 : 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.
  • Gen 46:29 : 29 Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.
  • Num 22:36 : 36 Balaam Meets Balak When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.
  • Judg 11:34 : 34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

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  • Exod 18:5-6
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    83%

    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.

    6He said to Moses,“I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

  • Exod 18:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    9Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the LORD had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

    10Jethro said,“Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • Exod 18:12
    79%

    12Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

  • Exod 18:27
    79%

    27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

    24Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

  • Exod 4:27
    78%

    27The LORD said to Aaron,“Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

  • Exod 18:14-17
    4 verses
    78%

    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said,“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

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

    16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

    17Moses’ father-in-law said to him,“What you are doing is not good!

  • Exod 4:18
    77%

    18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”

  • Exod 34:8
    74%

    8Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped

  • Exod 3:1
    73%

    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • Exod 2:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

    17When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

    18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”

  • Num 10:29
    72%

    29The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to the place about which the LORD said,‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel.”

  • Exod 2:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”

    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

  • Num 11:30
    71%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 19:17
    70%

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 25:6
    70%

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • Exod 33:8
    69%

    8And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

  • Exod 19:7
    69%

    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Exod 19:25
    69%

    25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

  • Exod 8:30
    69%

    30So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,

  • Num 14:5
    69%

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

  • Gen 50:1
    68%

    1The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

  • Exod 19:14
    68%

    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

  • Num 20:6
    68%

    6Moses Responds So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

  • Judg 19:4
    68%

    4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

  • Gen 18:2
    68%

    2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

  • Lev 9:23
    68%

    23Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.