Exodus 3:1

Moses, now a shepherd for Jethro, leads the flock to Horeb, the mountain of God. An ordinary day's work brings him to the place of divine encounter.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Kgs 19:8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
• Ps 78:70–72He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
• Exod 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
• Num 10:29And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
• Exod 18:1–6When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ 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;
• Mal 4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
• Judg 4:11Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
• Exod 19:11And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
• Deut 4:10Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
• Exod 24:13And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
• Deut 1:6The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
• Exod 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.
• Luke 2:8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
• Exod 3:5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
• Exod 19:3And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
• Amos 7:14–15Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
• Matt 4:18–19And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
• Ps 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
• Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
• Exod 2:18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
• Exod 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
• Exod 24:15–17And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
• Exod 4:27And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

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