Exodus 18:1
When Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses's 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:
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2Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah Moses's wife, after he had sent her back,
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Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Exodus 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Exodus 4:18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Numbers 10:29And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses's father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Joshua 9:9And they said to him, From a very far country thy servants have come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Judges 4:11Now Heber the Kenite, who was of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent to the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 18:1
This chapter is concerning Moses himself, and the affairs of his own family. I. Jethro his father-in-law brings to him his wife and children, ver. 1-6 . II. Moses entertains his father-in-law with great respect ( ver. 7 ), with good discourse ( ver. 8-11 ), with a sacrifice and a feast, ver. 12 . III. Jethro advises him about the management of his business as a judge in Israel, to take inferior judges in to his assistance ( ver. 13-23 ), and Moses, after some time, takes his counsel ( ver. 24-26 ), and so they… Read the whole commentary →