Exodus 18:1
And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
2He took Sephora the wife of Moses whom he had sent back:
Cross References
Exodus 2:16And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.
Exodus 2:21And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:
Exodus 4:18Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
Numbers 10:29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good : for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.
Joshua 9:9They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in the name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power, all the things that he did in Egypt.
Judges 4:11Now Haber the Cinite had some time before departed from the rest of the Cinites his brethren the sons of Hobab, the kinsman of Moses: and had pitched his tents unto the valley which is called Sellnim, and was near Cedes.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 18:1
This chapter is concerning Moses himself, and the affairs of his own family. I. Jethro his father-in-law brings to him his wife and children, ver. 1-6 . II. Moses entertains his father-in-law with great respect ( ver. 7 ), with good discourse ( ver. 8-11 ), with a sacrifice and a feast, ver. 12 . III. Jethro advises him about the management of his business as a judge in Israel, to take inferior judges in to his assistance ( ver. 13-23 ), and Moses, after some time, takes his counsel ( ver. 24-26 ), and so they… Read the whole commentary →