Exodus 2:15
When 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.
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- Acts 7:29 : 29 When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
- Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
- Gen 24:11 : 11 He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.
- Gen 29:2 : 2 He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
- Exod 4:19 : 19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
- 1 Kgs 19:1-3 : 1 Elijah Runs for His Life Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning,“May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” 3 Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,
- 1 Kgs 19:13-14 : 13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him,“Why are you here, Elijah?” 14 He answered,“I have been absolutely loyal to the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, even though the Israelites have abandoned the covenant they made with you torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”
- Prov 22:3 : 3 A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.
- Jer 26:21-23 : 21 When King Jehoiakim and all his bodyguards and officials heard what he was prophesying, the king sought to have him executed. But Uriah found out about it and fled to Egypt out of fear. 22 However, King Jehoiakim sent some men to Egypt, including Elnathan son of Achbor, 23 and they brought Uriah back from there. They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
- Matt 10:23 : 23 Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
- John 4:6 : 6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
- Gen 25:2 : 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
- Gen 25:4 : 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
- Gen 28:6-7 : 6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
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- Exod 2:10-145 verses82%
10 When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
11 The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
12 He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.
13 When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,“Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”
- Acts 7:28-292 verses81%
28 You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
29 When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
- Exod 2:16-172 verses79%
16 Now 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.
17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
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1 Now 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 4:18-203 verses76%
18 The 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.”
19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
20 Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
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1 The 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.
- Acts 7:21-244 verses73%
21 and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.
24 When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.
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8 Moses 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.
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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.)
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19 They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
- Exod 5:20-212 verses73%
20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
21 and 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!”
- Heb 11:23-242 verses72%
23 By 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.
24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
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15 Moses said to his father-in-law,“Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
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16 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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5 When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”
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13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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28 Pharaoh said to him,“Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!”
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3 The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.
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4 and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
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22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
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24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.