Acts 7:23
And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came on his heart to look after his brothers, the sons of Israel;
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In Context
22and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.
Cross References
Exodus 4:18And Moses goes and turns back to his father-in-law Jethro, and says to him, “Please let me go, and I return to my brothers who [are] in Egypt, and I see whether they are yet alive.” And Jethro says to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Exodus 35:29every man and woman of the sons of Israel (whom their heart has made willing to bring in for all the work which YHWH commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) brought in a willing-offering to YHWH.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also, in Judah the hand of God has been to give one heart to them to do the command of the king and of the heads in the matter of YHWH;
Ezra 1:5And heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin rise, and the priests and the Levites, even everyone whose spirit God has awoken, to go up to build the house of YHWH, that [is] in Jerusalem;
Proverbs 21:1The heart of a king [is] streams of waters in the hand of YHWH, || He inclines it wherever He pleases.
2 Corinthians 8:16And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:18-30
Stephen's Address. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and… Read the whole commentary →