Thematic Bible: Egypt


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Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way. When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and make your escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to make away with him."





























































































































































Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and there was great suffering, and our forefathers could not find any food. Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food













and thought such contempt as the Christ endured was truer wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the coming reward. Verse ConceptsReproachHeavenly RewardsRiches, SpiritualTreasureSufferings RewardedSpiritual TreasuresSeeking Things AboveChoosing God's WayTreasure In HeavenReward For WorksWorthAbuseValueaccounting





















When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and make your escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to make away with him." Then he awoke and took the child and his mother by night and took refuge in Egypt, to fulfil what the Lord said by the prophet, "I called my son from Egypt." read more.
Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries. Then the saying was fulfilled which was uttered by the prophet Jeremiah, "A cry was heard in Ramah! Weeping and great lamenting! Rachel weeping for her children, And inconsolable because they were gone." But when Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."







and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt??here their Lord also was crucified. Verse ConceptsBabylonCondemnation Of BabylonChrist Was KilledCorpses Of Other PeopleSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionHoly CityThe Two Witnesses



This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years, Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later. Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Law Given To Israelthe Law of moses