Acts 7:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

Moses

The same

Psalm 75:7

Psalm 113:7

Psalm 118:22

A ruler

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General references

Psalm 77:20

Hosea 12:13

1 Corinthians 1:27

Bible References

Moses

And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.

Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.

The same

But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

A ruler

For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.

For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

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At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:

See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin.

And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

Who is the image of the unseen God and existed before all living things;

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

General references

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;