Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
His father
The mountain
General references
Bible References
Kept
Psalm 78:70 He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
and took him from the sheepfolds;
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa—what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos 7:14
So Amos answered Amaziah, “I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.
Matthew 4:18
As He was walking along the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, since they were fishermen.
Luke 2:8
In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.
His father
Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Exodus 18:1
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Numbers 10:29
Moses said to Hobab, son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite: “We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”
Judges 4:11
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the sons of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law, and pitched his tent beside the oak tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
The mountain
Exodus 3:5
“Do not come closer,” He said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Exodus 18:5
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
Exodus 19:3
Moses went up the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain: “This is what you must say to the house of Jacob, and explain to the Israelites:
Exodus 24:15
When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
General references
Genesis 31:40
There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Exodus 2:18
When they returned to their father Reuel he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today?”
Exodus 18:5
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
Numbers 10:29
Moses said to Hobab, son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite: “We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”