Acts 7:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred , threescore and fifteen souls.

Acts 7:14 —

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Genesis 46:26-27
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; …
Deuteronomy 10:22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
1 Chronicles 2:5-6
The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. …
Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous words against Moses and God; for he spoke against this holy place and the law. Now here, I. The high priest calls upon him to answer for himself, Acts 7:1. He was president, and, as such, the mouth of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

9-16. the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him--Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel’s opposition to God’s purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.