Thematic Bible: Egypt


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But being forbidden by God in a dream to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different route. When they were gone, and angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise: take the babe and His mother and escape to Egypt, and remain there till I bring you word. For Herod is about to make search for the child in order to destroy Him."
























































So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements. Verse ConceptsEducation, Examples OfIntelligencePower, HumanScholarsPowerful IndividualsMighty in its influenceEducationSchoolThe Power Of WordsSpeechaccomplishmentstrainingculture



















Through faith he left Egypt, not being frightened by the king's anger; for he held on his course as seeing the unseen One. Verse ConceptsVisionGod, InvisibleSpiritual PerceptionCourage, Examples OfThose Who Saw GodExploits Of FaithAttitudes Towards KingsEnduringThose Not FearingVisualizationUnseen Faith



























So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements. Verse ConceptsEducation, Examples OfIntelligencePower, HumanScholarsPowerful IndividualsMighty in its influenceEducationSchoolThe Power Of WordsSpeechaccomplishmentstrainingculture























































But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food. Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food













because he deemed the reproaches which he might meet with in the service of the Christ to be greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his gaze on the coming reward. Verse ConceptsReproachHeavenly RewardsRiches, SpiritualTreasureSufferings RewardedSpiritual TreasuresSeeking Things AboveChoosing God's WayTreasure In HeavenReward For WorksWorthAbuseValueaccounting





















When they were gone, and angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise: take the babe and His mother and escape to Egypt, and remain there till I bring you word. For Herod is about to make search for the child in order to destroy Him." So Joseph roused himself and took the babe and His mother by night and departed into Egypt. There he remained till Herod's death, that what the Lord had said through the Prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called My Son." read more.
Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious, and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in Bethlehem and all its neighbourhood, according to the date he had so carefully ascertained from the Magi. Then were these words, spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, fulfilled, "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more." But after Herod's death an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said to him, "Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."







And their dead bodies are to lie in the broad street of the great city which spiritually is designated 'Sodom' and 'Egypt,' where indeed their Lord was crucified. Verse ConceptsBabylonCondemnation Of BabylonChrist Was KilledCorpses Of Other PeopleSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionHoly CityThe Two Witnesses



And God declared that Abraham's posterity should for four hundred years make their home in a country not their own, and be reduced to slavery and be oppressed. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise. Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Law Given To Israelthe Law of moses