Exodus 18:1

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Summary

When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

Jethro

Judges 4:11

Heard

God

Romans 15:18

Done

General references

Numbers 10:29

Bible References

Jethro

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out to the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us and we will do you good, for the Lord

has promised good concerning Israel.”

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

Heard

My soul will make its boast in the Lord;
The humble will hear it and rejoice.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

Remember His

wonders which He has done,

His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord,
Or can show forth all His praise?

It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.’

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘In those days ten men from all the nations will

grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”

but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.”

God

“This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.

When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

Done

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the fame of the Lord your God; for we have heard the report of Him and all that He did in Egypt,

“Then You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants and all the people of his land;
For You knew that they acted arrogantly toward them,
And made a name for Yourself as it is this day.

You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,

He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits of all their vigor.

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.

To Him who smote the Egyptians in their firstborn,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses.
Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,

General references

has promised good concerning Israel.”