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. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
• Exod 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
• Ps 77:14–15You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
• Ps 78:50–53He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
• Ps 105:36–41He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
• Isa 63:11–13Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
• Ps 44:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
• Ps 34:2My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
• Gal 1:23–24but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
• Josh 9:9They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
• Acts 7:35–36“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Ps 105:43He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
• Ps 78:4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
• Ps 106:8–11Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
• Josh 2:10For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Ps 136:10–16To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;
• Ps 106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
• Zech 8:23Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
• Exod 2:21Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
• Num 10:29Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
• Ps 105:5Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
• Exod 7:1–15Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
• Acts 15:12All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
• Judg 4:11Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
• Neh 9:10–11and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
• Exod 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.”
• Acts 21:19–20When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Exod 2:18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
• Jer 33:9This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.’”
• Rom 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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