Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
He went down
General references
Bible References
A syrian
Genesis 24:4
But shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac."
Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
He went down
Genesis 46:1
Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came unto Beersheba and offered offerings unto the God of his father Isaac.
Psalm 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
Acts 7:15
And Jacob descended into Egypt, and died both he and our fathers,
Became
Deuteronomy 10:22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
Genesis 47:27
And Israel dwelt in Egypt, even in the country of Goshen. And they had their possessions therein, and they grew and multiplied exceedingly.
Exodus 1:7
the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.
General references
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.