Thematic Bible: Often a refuge to strangers
Thematic Bible
Egypt » Often a refuge to strangers
That's why Solomon tried to execute Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, where he lived as a guest of King Shishak and remained until Solomon had died.
Verse Concepts
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because the famine was so severe.
Verse Concepts
"Your servants are shepherds," they replied, "both we and our ancestors. We've come to live for a while in this region, since there is no pasture back in Canaan for your servants' flocks. May your servants please live in the Goshen territory?"
Verse Concepts
But Hadad escaped to Egypt in the company of some of his father's Edomite servants, while Hadad was still a little child.
Then all the people, including those who were insignificant and those who were important, fled with the captains of the armed forces to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
Verse Concepts
Having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they left for their own country by a different road. After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt," he said. "Stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and kill him."