Exodus 2:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Moses

Acts 7:22

Hebrews 11:24

Burdens

General references

Genesis 31:23

Bible References

Moses

And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.

By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Burdens

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

General references

And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.