Acts 7:23
But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
Cross References
Exodus 4:18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Exodus 35:29The children of Israel brought a free will offering to the LORD; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by Moses.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the LORD’s word.
Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up, rose up to build the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts 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 →