Exodus 18:3
together with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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2When Moses had sent home his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had welcomed her,
Cross References
Exodus 2:22She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I'm an exile living in a foreign country.”
1 Chronicles 23:15The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
Acts 7:29When he heard this, Moses ran away. He went and lived in exile in the land of Midian, where two sons were born to him.
1 Peter 2:11My friends, I'm pleading with you as foreigners and strangers in this world not to give in to physical desires that are in conflict with what is spiritual.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 18:2-7
Jethro's Visit to Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help,… Read the whole commentary →