Acts 7:23
But when he was about forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
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22Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and works.
Cross References
Exodus 4:18So Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me go so I may return to my relatives who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Exodus 35:29The Israelites brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart was willing brought materials for all the work that Yahweh had commanded through Moses to be made.
2 Chronicles 30:12The hand of God also came on Judah, to give them one heart, to carry out the command of the king and leaders by the word of Yahweh.
Ezra 1:5Then the heads of the ancestors' clans of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and Levites, and everyone whose spirit God stirred to go and build his house arose.
Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of Yahweh; 1 he turns it wherever he pleases. 1
2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into Titus' heart the same earnest care that I have for you.
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 →