Exodus 18:1

Jethro, priest of Midian and Moses' father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and Israel in the exodus. Reports of God's mighty deliverance spread to the nations.

Cross-references · 31

• Exod 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
• Exod 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
• Ps 77:14–15You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
• Ps 78:50–53He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
• Ps 105:36–41Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
• Isa 63:11–13Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
• Ps 44:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
• Ps 34:2My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
• Gal 1:23–24They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
• Josh 9:9“Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
• Acts 7:35–36This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Ps 105:43He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
• Ps 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
• Ps 106:8–11Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
• Josh 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
• Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• Ps 136:10–16He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 106:2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
• Zech 8:23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
• Exod 2:21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
• Num 10:29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
• Ps 105:5Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
• Exod 7:1–15The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
• Acts 15:12The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
• Judg 4:11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
• Neh 9:10–11You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
• Exod 4:18Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
• Acts 21:19–20Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Exod 2:18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
• Jer 33:9So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
• Rom 15:18I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

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