Exodus 2:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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  • Acts 7:29 : 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  • Gen 24:11 : 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
  • Gen 29:2 : 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
  • Exod 4:19 : 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
  • 1 Kgs 19:1-3 : 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. 3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
  • 1 Kgs 19:13-14 : 13 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said, What are you doing here, Elijah? 14 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • Prov 22:3 : 3 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
  • Jer 26:21-23 : 21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt: 22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; 23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
  • Matt 10:23 : 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most assuredly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
  • John 4:6 : 6 Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour{noon}.
  • Gen 25:2 : 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
  • Gen 25:4 : 4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
  • Gen 28:6-7 : 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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  • Exod 2:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

    11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

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

    13He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

    14He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

  • Acts 7:28-29
    2 verses
    81%

    28Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

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

  • Exod 2:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

    17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

  • Exod 3:1
    77%

    1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

  • Exod 4:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

    19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

    20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

  • Exod 18:1
    74%

    1Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:21-24
    4 verses
    73%

    21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

    22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

    23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, the children of Israel.

    24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

  • Exod 18:8
    73%

    8Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

  • Exod 11:3
    73%

    3Yahweh 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.

  • Exod 2:19
    73%

    19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

  • Exod 5:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Heb 11:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

    24By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

  • Exod 18:15
    72%

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

  • Num 25:16
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    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 20:15
    71%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 14:5
    71%

    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Num 14:13
    71%

    13Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

  • Exod 10:28
    71%

    28Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

  • Exod 4:3
    71%

    3He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

  • Exod 18:4
    71%

    4The name of the other was Eliezer,{Eliezer means "God is my helper."} for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

  • Exod 1:22
    71%

    22Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Exod 4:24
    71%

    24It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.