Jethro in the Bible
Meaning: his excellence; his posterity
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And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west [of] the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, "Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who [are] in Egypt, and let me see whether they [are] yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there [at] the mountain of God.
And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, [am] coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."
And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt.
And Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh--who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
And Moses will hear to the voice of Jethro, and will do all that he said.
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.
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Heathen » Instances of » Jethro
Israel » Organization » Government » Jethro
'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife? Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads; and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do. 'And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes. And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren -- then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;
Jethro » Moses spent forty years of exile with, and married his daughter
And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, 'Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?' and they say, 'A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;' and he saith unto his daughters, 'And where is he? why is this? -- ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.' And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses, and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, 'A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'
Praise » Exemplified » Jethro
Priest » Before moses » Jethro
Prudence » Exemplified » Jethro
and they have judged the people at all times; and it hath come to pass, every great matter they bring in unto thee, and every small matter they judge themselves; and lighten it from off thyself, and they have borne with thee. If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.'