Exodus 3:16

God tells Moses to gather Israel's elders and announce that Yahweh has appeared and seen their plight. The deliverance is to be proclaimed to the people.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 8:4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
• Exod 4:31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Exod 4:29Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
• Gen 50:24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
• Acts 15:14Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
• Exod 4:5“That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
• Exod 3:2Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
• 1 Pet 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
• Acts 20:17From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
• Exod 13:19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
• Acts 11:30which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
• Gen 21:1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
• Matt 26:3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
• Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Heb 2:6–7But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
• Luke 19:44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
• Exod 2:25God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
• Ruth 1:6Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.
• Gen 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
• Exod 15:14The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
• Exod 24:11He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
• Exod 18:12Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

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