Acts 7:23

And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

In Context

22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his worlds and deeds.

24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting the Egyptian.

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Cross References

Proverbs 21:1As streams of water, So is the heart of the king in the hand of the LORD; He turneth it whithersoever he will.

2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care for you into 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 →

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